Do you remember when both graphics cards companies introduced two new series of products every year? Looks like a long time ago now, doesn't it? The usual "a new generation now, a refresh in six month" is dead and buried in the aftermath of ATI's acquisition from AMD. Not that this hectic pace was always observed, but it wasn't usual to skip a cicle; at most, either one or the other would exchange spring for autumn as the season for the technology leap after missing one of the steps.

When nVidia releases G92 on the 12th of November (I'm taking X-bit labs word), it will be a whole year since the launch of the 8800 series, and we are just talking about a refresh here! It has a lot of improvements, but it's not a 9800 (as some sites have dubbed it):

- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture
- GPGPU native.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- PCI Express 2.0 bus.

You better start buying ATI hardware or the lack of competition will lead us to a lack of innovation. And while you are at it, buy AMD too, because I don't think Intel will keep scratching their butts for much longer if they aren't faced with GHz opposition.

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