At its GPU Conference in San Jose, California, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially announced the company’s next line of GPU architecture, codenamed Fermi. Described as the “soul of a supercomputer in the body of a GPU,” the specs boast 3 billion transistors, 512 shader cores, eight times the peak performance in double precision situations, and the ability to run C++ code natively.

There’s no word on Fermi will do for gaming just yet in response to ATI’s Radeon 5000 series, with Huang noting that an announcement regarding the company’s Fermi-powered GeForce cards will come at a later date.

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