NVIDIA has been working on getting control of the 55nm process to make something more efficient of its huge GT200 core, but it seems that even though the chip taped out long ago, we won't see any chips for another couple of months. We said it when the first rumors came out, that this will most likely be a chip for the Winter refresh and according to the ELSA roadmap that leaked onto the web, this is very much the case.
A bit surprisingly, NVIDIA will not refresh the GTX280 but the GTX260. The GTX280 will instead be replaced in the first half of 2009 by a 40nm core. There is nothing specific about the chips, but since the GTX260 is the card to be replaced we're guessing this will just be a card with higher frequencies, not altered physical specifications, think GTX260+. It's way to early to estimate what the 40nm GT212 might have to offer.
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