Products that might be pushed back to a March release include the nForce 790i and GeForce 9800GX2 dual-GPU graphics solution (rumor).

Expreview is reporting today that almost all of NVIDIA’s upcoming products will be delayed into March. NVIDIA has a healthy amount of new hardware coming out soon, including a re-worked motherboard chipset and their dual-GPU graphics solution, the 9800GX2. The company had previously planned to launch all of these products in February, but now it looks like they will be delayed upwards of two weeks. The reason for this delay is currently unknown (as is the legitimacy of the report), but Expreview suggests that the manufacture of the parts in factories such as TSMC will be interfering with the Chinese new year.

Obviously we have no way of validating this report, but given the problems NVIDIA has been having with launches recently, it would not be all too surprising. NVIDIA’s nForce 780i platform was initially slated for a late October 2007 launch, but due to discrepancies with Intel’s voltage design for Penryn, ended up having to go back to the factory for modification and was consequently delayed for more than a month. Given the pretty much unanimous praise for AMD’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2, to be released on Monday the 28th of January, this is a very untimely setback for NVIDIA.

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 has proven to be the fastest 3D graphics card on the planet, and it looks like it will remain so for at least the entire month of February. NVIDIA’s nForce 790i chipset being delayed is also a big deal, as their current flagship 780i seems to be little more than a tweaked version of the very popular 680i. It seems a lot of NVIDIA’s motherboard problems have stemmed from a less-than-cohesive relationship with Intel lately, as miscommunication has led to the lack of “official” support for some of the new Socket T Yorkfield processors.

Source: Expreview.com

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