No NV30 till April?

[Silent_One]

http://www.ve3d.com/Comments.aspx?ID=1090&contenttype=1

"Merrill Lynch's latest investment report on Nvidia has an interesting little tidbit - Merrill Lynch is a little concerned about Nvidia being able to launch NV30 successfully during April Quarter. While this may just be a very conservative outlook on the card, it does make one wonder how much a late launch would hurt Nvidia's pockets. The language of the report is very skeptical at times. Here's a piece:

The first order of business for NVIDIA is to get NV30 off the ground. Though we picked up product specifics at the launch on Monday, we had a chance to get more detail on the timing of the ramp and remaining challenges yesterday. As expected, NVDIA has chosen not to use low-k dielectric on the NV-30, a decision which involves some performance compromises but also lowers the risk of any manufacturing miscues. With the part now qualified, waiting on system integrators to finish boards is the issue – that clearly is not going to happen until the April quarter. "

OUCH!

 

[Dave Baumann]

April Quarter may be in financial terms which could mean in the Feb-Mar-Apr period.

 

[ben6]

well ,we're in the January quarter now. Fiscal and calendar quarters are different. January quarter is November, December , January. April Quarter is February , March and April .

 

[Silent_One]

There are different financial quarterly report times for some companys. Most companys quarterlys go from January to March, April to June, ect...
Currently my company is in 4th quarter-Oct. to Dec.
Does anybody know the actual time frames for Nvidia's financial reports?

 

[Joe DeFuria]

It's what ben6 said right above. "April Quarter" for nVidia is Feb, March, April...

 

[antlers]

nVidia's fourth quarter ends Jan twenty-something. April Quarter starts late January.

 

[GraphixViolence]

Why would they name a quarter according to it's third month? Nobody does that. If they meant it was coming out in April, and Nvidia's fiscal quarter runs Feb-Apr, they would have called it the February quarter. I think there's a pretty good chance they're talking calendar quarters here, because calendar Q2 starts in April. Of course, they may also be confusing NV30 with NV31.

 

[ben6]

That's a good question. When I asked Nvidia a question on quarters right before NV30 launch they said January quarter was November, December January.

 

[tieros]

Quarters are always referred to by their last month, at least as long as I've been worried about them

It's probably a shortened form of "...for the 3 months ending January".

 

[Evildeus]

Sparkle: GeForceFX in January starting from 500 euro

http://www.tecchannel.de/news/20021122/thema20021122-9275.html

 

[Richthofen]

Companies do name the fiscal quaters referring to the last month.
That is the month with which the quater ends, it is the month where they announce their financial results and it is often the month during which the conference calls are held.

Nvidias fiscal 4th quater 2002 ends on january the 27th. It is Nvidia's january quater and in that case the launch quater for NV30.
Nvidias April quater is the 1st quater 2003 ending in April and in that case the mass production quater for NV30 boards (not chips).