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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...208014939.html
"While NVIDIA remains extremely tight-lipped over its future products,
it is known that the company is readying its code-named NV47 visual
processing unit, a massively revamped GeForce 6 architecture with 24
pixel pipelines. The NV47 is expected to be released sometime in
Spring, 2005, but it is unknown whether NVIDIA is ahead, or behind
ATI's R520 product.

The status of NVIDIA's future architecture code-named NV50 is also
uncertain: some reported recently that the chip had been cancelled, but
officials decline to confirm or deny the information."

Err, and CPU's still only have 9 piplines.

CPU's generally only have one pipeline,
maily because they generally operate in a
serial manner. The stuff a GPU operates on is
highly parallelised so going with multiple
pipelines makes sense.

The 486 was the last CPU to have one pipeline....
The Athlon 64 has 9 the Pentium 4 7. Still the more piplines you have the
harder it is to push up mhz. And if GPU deal with more parallel data than
CPU's....