Nvidia tight lipped about next gen core

“ WE STILL DON’T know the codename of next generation Nvidia card but we know its definitely not NV48 or NV50. Someone denied it was called the NV47, but then again someone at Nvidia it as an option perhaps just to confuse us. A core similar to NV50 will come later, possibly in 2006, or at least Nvidia will use some marchitecture that it meant to use on the NV50 closer to the Longhorn launch. Longhorn comes in 2006 but probably later, rather than early we think.

NV50 was meant to have Shader Model 4.0, and to have full support for Avalon and all of the other DirectX 10/Next features. As we said, Nvidia cancelled it as it realised that it does not make any sense to launch the core by the end of 2005 with features that could be used sometime in 2006, after Microsoft releases Longhorn.”