It is first time that NVIDIA proved their Roadmap is not as accurate as it should be. Here is a short overview of an article by recognized blogger Charlie Demerjian, who always keeps finger on the pulse.

SemiAccurate: It looks like Nvidia has slipped their GPU roadmap a year, but that is news to no one. The biggest shock of them all is that the company actually admitted it slipped, even if it is two years after the fact.

The short story is that Nvidia has once again admitted what SemiAccurate has been saying for literally years, their GPU roadmap had no chance of being released on the schedule they were promising. Without getting in to the gory details, the story is exactly as we have been telling our consulting clients, the Fermi debacle has waterfall effects on the entire roadmap, and that is finally starting to show up in official documents.

If you recall, Nvidia doesn’t give out long term roadmaps until they are way behind, and want to ‘prove’ that they are not. Until the Fermi debacle, there was never any comment on future roadmaps, but to ‘prove’ that all was well, the company started tossing them out like candy at a parade. The problem now is when those roadmaps can’t be met because they were never realistic, they become just stock price adjustment tools for the unwary analyst. (…)

That brings us to the latest slip, the GPUs. Remember that Fermi was promised to rooms full of analysts for 2009, and Jen-Hsun himself waved faked cards around to ‘prove’ it. Until a few weeks ago, the GPU roadmap shown off by the company was still insisting that the GPU came out in 2009, even though it was not released until Q2/2010. That curious situation didn’t change the fact that the roadmaps still claimed otherwise for all of 2010 and most of 2011.

Previous NVIDIA GPU Roadmap

Updated NVIDIA GPU Roadmap

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