By Paul Taylor
14 October 2008, 9:16 AM

A WHILE BACK TSMC was caught going on record confirming it had scheduled Nvidia’s 40nm manufacturing for Q2-2009. Great, Nvidia has a plan after all. Last night, German site Hardware-infos got word on the extremely messy naming scheme for 200-series 55nm and 40nm rehashes, and confirmation - it seems - on the 40nm schedule.

So starting off with the high-end, these will be named – as previously announced GTX 270 and GTX 290, although the GTX 260 and GTX 280 will co-exist. Performance parts are to occupy the 230-250 slots and add the prefix GT, as in GT 250. GS prefixes are the mainstream parts and take up the 210 through 220 slots and the lowliest of the low-end is the GeForce G 200 through 209.

Details are fuzzier in the low-end, but that’s to be expected as these are 40nm parts. Moving into a new process usually carries with it a certain degree of uncertainty and it all depends on ramping parts. To add to the confusion, current non GT200-based chips are to be renamed to 100-series chips as we’d mentioned before. Confusing? Indeed.