NVIDIA shows signs ... [2008 - 2017]

I can't imagine any better Xmas present Jen Hsun could give to Dirk Meyer...

 

One more disaster (GT2xx@40nm):

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3657&p=15

Ouch....

 

If Cedar and redwood come out before Christmas, a massive can of whoop ass would have opened, no doubt.

 

Well AMD has scheduled those for Q1, not Q4

 

This seems to tie in somewhat with Charlie's rumors that Nvidia bet the farm on that special production run of wafers for Fermi. Had it turned out well they could have started production on cards and the gap between GT 200 and Fermi wouldn't have been as large as it's looking to shape up to be.

And simultaneously they took a gamble that they'd have enough stock of GT 200 to last and stopped wafer orders to avoid a stock pileup similar to what they had last holiday season with G9x.

That's the only thing I can think of as to why Nvidia would find themselves in this situation. Still that's an awful lot of gambles hoping one thing would turn out fantastically well.

Regards,
SB

 

Well there's no way Fermi volumes could replace GT200 volumes even if things went well and GT200 is at price points Fermi would most certainly not venture into so that can't be it. Charlie's first article is the only theory that makes economic sense.

 

http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7876

Nvidia, not going away anytime soon despite the efforts of a certain ATI troll.

 

Is this an official news or just another rumor ?

 

It is just another rumor. As are almost every other link of news in this thread including the chipset stuff. The relative credibility of the rumors is determined later.

 

Well, I don't think there's any serious competition for Tegra in the handheld arena is there? MS went with it for the Zune, and I wouldn't be surprised if others picked up on it.

Not so familiar with handheld graphics units, but pretty sure ATI doesn't have anything serious in that market segment.

I don't think anyone seriously thinks Nvidia is going the way of the dodo/3dfx anytime soon, but it certainly looks like rough times ahead for the short term.

Regards,
SB

 

Yeah that particular rumour has been around for a while now. If true, it'll be huge indeed. Who's making the processor for the current DS?

 

No, ATI doesn't, but Qualcomm who bought ATI's handheld etc department from AMD might

 

There are two ARM CPU cores licensed and produced by Nintendo (at some 3rd party factory probably). 3D engine is made by Nintendo themselves.

 

Charlie's roadmap comes to life!

googlish

 

NVIDIA's Bumpy Ride: A Q4 2009 Update

 

Well, Nvidia cards currently are pretty much not a good deal in any catagory, so not selling too well.

Even if they didn't officially eol their cards (before the Anand article), they effectively did, and it's been obvious for weeks, since they refused to drop GTX285 price at all when 5850 and even 70 obsoleted it.

 

Huh? On one hand giving notice to partners that the 260-285's are EOL, and on another hand having their PR call other people liars for saying it.

 

looks like nvidia wants to compete for the semi-accurate moniker

 

Yeah at this point it would appear Nvidia will say anything, regardless of whether it's truthful or not, in an attempt to discredit anything Charlie says.

Regards,
SB

 

Can you imagine? Anand entertains an idea of PC GPUs being without NV.