Nvidia has once again changed the name of the Fermi cards. The first two cards based on Nvidia's GF100 chip will now be called the GeForce GTX 480 and the GTX 470, skipping the GT300 series names completely.

It seems that it thinks there is no point to having any high-end 300 series cards, and will push its Fermi products into the 400 series instead. We can't say we blame it. After word got out that Nvidia's 300 series would be associated with old cards that could not run Direct X11, the brand for that range of model names was pretty much poisoned. Besides if its next graphics cards have bigger numbers they must be better and more value for money, right?

This is just the latest in a long string of micro-information releases on Fermi. Nvidia recently showed us the Fermi architecture, sort of, in block diagrams.

But what we don't know yet are more important things like power consumption and clock speeds. Oh well, never mind.

When are they coming out? Pick a number, multiply it by your hat size and then divide it by your shoe size, and you might be close. Nvidia's graphics card manufacturing partners have all stopped talking about dates, but word on the street is that it will be after CeBIT, sometime, maybe.

As it is now February and we still don't have a Fermi card released, I will have to give another hat tip to Charlie for being spot on with his info yet again.