The big question from this announcement is what is happening with DX11? nVidia vehemently denied the usefullness of DX10.1 when ATI was promoting it. Now when DX11 is just around the corner, nVidia suddenly decides to take the effort to redesign the GT200 architecture to incorporate DX10.1. More likely than not, this may be an admission that nVidia won't have DX11 GPUs ready as soon as they hoped. Or at the very least DX11 mobile GPUs are a long ways off and the mobile line finally gets a refresh seeing that the 9xxx/GT1xx lineup draws it's roots as shrinks from the original 80nm cores released in 2007.

Looking at the top two models: ten watt jump from a relatively modest bump in clockspeed (36% power rise from a 10 -13% clock increase) -- but that's what happens when push a design past where it wants to be.

Well, I guess this goes to show they weren't having 40nm problems, at least not as much as previously claimed, we may actually have decent laptop GFX available. Doubtful there will be a price war on this stuff though, they both need to milk this market.

all of which pack a brand-new 40nm graphics processor with DirectX 10.1 support.

Just in time for DX11!

40nm problem still exist, only that nvidia focuses its 40nm production to mobile chips while ATI is on desktop part to experiment further for their upcoming DX 11 mainstream hardware, while nvidia has no plans of releasing DX11 hardware this year that's why they focus on mobile.

Alright, now taking bets for Number of Renames this GPU will undergo!

Who's in for two?? Three? Four??

i am really really sick of nvidia's naming schemes

For a moment, I thought that I was in heaven! 45W TDP for a GPU. Then I saw the "M". It would be nice if they could design powerful desktop GPUs on 40nm with TDPs of around 60-70W. That would be progress.

Now, all we need is a 40nm version of the GF9300/9400M (Ion and Macbook core-logic) to complete Intel's current core-logic misery in the lap-top/net-book market. Souping up a 40nm 9300/9400M with a 32 stream-processor version of the IGP instead of the current 16 stream-processor would be icing on the (nVidia) cake. Pairing it up with a dual-core Via Nano would give a netbook or long battery-life low-cost laptop "made in heaven".

I don't see how G210M is part of the GT200 family. You can't have 16 Stream Processors in an architecture that has Stream Processor clusters with 24 of them. The others make sense (with 48 and 96), but this one just doesn't add up.

As for AMD's mobile Radeons, I have yet to see any of them on a actual product, so the three month period that they were reported to exist, seems to have been just the usual paper launch. Let's see if these are different.