All of that just depends on 40-nanometer supply and we’re trying to finish it the best we possibly can. For the entry level products, the truth is that the new architectures at the very, very, entry level GPUs are probably not extremely well appreciated anyhow. And so the reasons why people buy the new architectures are tend to be early adopters and they seem to be game enthusiasts for workstation designers or creative artists, or I mean, there are very specific reasons why it really enhances their experience.
Our current generation GPUs are fabulous at all of the things that mainstream consumers would use. We use the [computer fourth], all of the high-definition videos even plays 3D Blu-ray. We’re the only GPU that processes 3D Blu-ray completely in the GPU. All of them have CUDA and they’re all compatible with the Fermi architecture and now all of them have Optimus, right.
So I think the mainstream GPUs are really fabulous and have been enhanced recently with some really great features and so it makes sense that they’re going to continue to do quite nicely in the marketplace and then we’ll just transition as fast as we can.
Douglas Freedman - Broadpoint AmTech
All right. Terrific. And is there any change to your expectations in the ramp for Tegra during the year?
Jen-Hsun Huang
No. Not much has changed. We’re currently working on quite a few tablets and these tablets are -- some are tablets and some are tablets with keyboards and there’s all kinds of different form factors, there’s five-inch versions, there’s seven-inch versions, there’s 10-inch versions. Some are being created by computer companies, some are being created by consumer electronics companies and some are created mobile companies. And everybody has a slightly different perspective on how they would take it to market , so I’m really excited about that.
Today, I think it’s just literally today in Barcelona, Adobe and NVIDIA demonstrated the world’s first interactive reader on a mobile device and a magazine reader on a mobile device and the Wired magazine demonstrated an interactive version of Wired and if you get a chance to see it on the web it’s just really stunning, just completely stunning. The experience of reading a magazine that comes to life when you touch it on the tablet, on the Tegra tablet is just really something else.
And so now we have the full Internet on Tegra. Flash 10.1 is completely accelerated on our GPU, so the 100 million websites now just work. You have multitasking, so you could read a magazine, close it, go look up something on the web, close that and come back to reading your magazine exactly where you left off. You could also enjoy digital magazines and in the near future digital books. So I think this form factor is really going to do nicely and I can’t wait to start ramping it.
Douglas Freedman - Broadpoint AmTech
Great. Thanks for taking my questions.
Jen-Hsun Huang
Yeah. Thanks a lot, Doug.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Nicholas Aberle with Caris & Company. Please proceed with your question.
Nicholas Aberle - Caris & Company
Good afternoon. My question is, so given a scenario where 40-nanometer supply is constrained throughout all of 2010, my guess is you guys will make some -- have to make some tough decisions on how to allocate the supply you do have. Given you guys are transitioning GPU, desktop and notebook over to 40-nanometer, Taper too is 40-nanometer Tesla too is 40-nanometer. How do you guys make those decisions as we roll through the year?
Jen-Hsun Huang
Well, I said that supply was going to be constrained. I didn’t say supply was going to be constant. We’re expecting a big year, but frankly, if we had more supply we’d have a bigger year and so we just have to keep working it.
TSMC is just doing a fabulous job of improving their yields and if you look at from August, when we first started ramping to now, the yield improvements that they’ve done and the execution that they, their teams have gone through, it’s just fabulous. This is a really extraordinary company and what they have done with 40-nanometer yields over the last several months is really fabulous. |