My guess would be that any Fermi chips shipping in 2009 will be on compute cards for a handful of deep-pocketed HPC customers. NVidia's marketing for Fermi has been extremely GPGPU-heavy, to the point that the only directly graphics-related thing on their Fermi page is a mention of raytracing as a possible application.
Also, the white paper is hilarious:
Also, the white paper is hilarious:
The graphics processing unit (GPU), first invented by NVIDIA in 1999
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