Nvidia is playing hard to get. Ok, I can understand their attitude when it comes to G80, but when it comes to future products, they should probably be more transparent. On the other hand, due to the merge between Ati and AMD, this kind of attitude seems to work best. Let's dig in a little deeper, shall we?

On November the 9th, Nvidia had its investor call programmed for the 3rd quarter of 2006. Although many talks eventually started or ended with something related to the G80 launch, some future ideas were revealed during the discussions between the investors and Nvidia CEO.

The idea behind all the talk is that Nvidia is targeting AMD with its new motherboards and video cards at the same time. Note that Ati was the largest IGP supplier before AMD took over. Now Nvidia wants to produce an IGP for INTEL CPUs in order to counter the attack coming from AMD's RD600. Nvidia was present on INTEL's ground more or less since the first Nforce 500 series appeared but its motherboards were generally enthusiast oriented rather than targeting the value segment.
This time, they are trying something different by offering an IGP which could end up being integrated into cheaper motherboards. And if you take into account that RD600 was already delayed several times, you'll realize than Nvidia has all the time it needs.

Since we don't exactly know if AMD will still maintain the roadmap Ati published when it was still a standalone brand, we can't tell for sure what will happen. All we know is that Nvidia uses the time it has to maximize its advantage. Moreover, concerning the GPU market, they are trying to further develop more G80 derivatives, with the purpose of releasing no less than 9 different models supporting DirectX 10 extensions. There are 3 products being launched in February and each will be split into 3 separate flavors.

And that's enough conceptual thinking to last them at least one year. We'll just have to wait and see what new Nvidia creature will eventually see the light.