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I don't know if this is good news or bad news. I guess it depends on what camp you are into (Nvidia/AMD) and if you are looking for more performance than what the 980/970 offer right now.

Nvidia Maxwell GM200 Titan II/GTX 980 Ti Slipping To 2016 – TSMC 16nm Volume Production Delays Stretch to Q3 2015

http://wccftech.com/tsmc-buys-14b-worth-equipment-16nm-volume-prediction-begins-q2q3-2015/

 

The article is too long to post, but basically says that instead of launching the big Maxwell chip (GM200) in 28nm Nvidia decided to make it on 16nm alongside revisions of the 980/970 chips in 2015, but given that the new 16nm production tech is late (again) and rumors say that Nvidia decided to skip 20nm altogether, they'll be forced to either go back to 28nm, take the risk to go 16 and have poor yields or wait until the process is mature enough to produce the new cards (in 2016).

By the way, AMD seems not affected by this because their plan was going 20nm in 2015 and 16nm in 2016, so there's no delay for them.



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