With the release of the latest 7 nm chips manufactured by TSMC and GlobalFoundries, is Nvidia going to release the next gen GPUs on the short-lived 12 nm stepping, or will it jump directly to 7 nm? If the green team chooses to go with the 7 nm chips, the launch of the GTX 11xx series could be pushed towards the end of 2018.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GTX-11xx-series-could-come-with-7-nm-chips-instead-12-nm-launching-late-November.303558.0.html