Nvidia has revealed their Q4 results and, unsurprisingly, they're a new record: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12418/nvidia-announces-record-q4-2018-results
Also, there's a rumor that they are readying new cards for April, and will be based on an unnanounced Ampere architecture:
Rumor: Nvidia Ampere might launch as GeForce GTX 2070 and 2080 on April 12th
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/rumor-nvidia-ampere-might-launch-as-geforce-gtx-2070-and-2080-on-april-12th.html
original source (in german): https://www.3dcenter.org/news/nvidia-ampere-geruechtekueche-gp102-produktion-bereits-eingestellt-ga104-seit-februar-produktio
Currently, Volta is based on HBM2 memory which is not available in large enough mass-volume quantities, and it is expensive to purchase and implement as well. It also is an architecture with Tensor cores, that's expensive and not likely benefiting gaming. So why produce high-end graphics cards, or better yet, GPUs with Tensor cores?
In short, the "Ampere" GPUs series could be an architecture better suited for consumers, and not the "deep learning" market, and we think they are based on GDDR6 graphics memory. Ampere as an architecture never made it into the long-term roadmaps from Nvidia, hence logic dictates here that Ampere would be based on refresh Pascal architecture, perhaps fabbed on a smaller node and optimized fabrication process.
Please excuse my bad English.
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