In October this year, NVIDIA introduced its next-generation processor to the world, and it was then pretty apparent that the DX11 GPU part, with the code-name Fermi, was going to be following in the footsteps of Intel's "Larrabee". It was also going to be a "fully programable, many-core, through-put oriented processor with some graphics-specific hardware tacked on". While the world is eagerly waiting for the launch, rumor has it that the already delayed part has been further delayed and now might see the light of the day in March 2010.

Originally, Fermi was supposed to be launched in November, but then it was delayed till the CES, and now it has been reportedly pushed back even further.

If the rumor is true, it given NVIDIA's arch rival ATI an upper leg, as its new range of Evergreen GRU products are all for a definite launch in January or February.

A delay in launch is bad news for any firm, but it has come at a particularly bad time for NVIDIA, which has already seen the "inevitable and halted development of its chipsets for non-Atom x86 platforms" earlier this year.

One good thing that the company has going for itself is its ARM-based embedded, mobile processor, Tegra, which has managed to gain much fans even before its launch.