Re: Nvidia in a heap of trouble. Not good for competition!

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:47:26 -0700, "William" <>
wrote:

>I don't like the sound of this, but it is all over the net today. Nvidia
>kills the GTX285, GTX275, GTX260, and abandons the mid and high end market.
>"Due to a massive series of engineering failures, nearly all of the
>company's product line is financially under water, and mismanagement seems
>to be killing the company."
>
>See the article at:
>http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/...gh-end-market/
>
>I would by far prefer a healthy Nvidia to keep ATI hard at work. If Nvidia
>goes away, ATI will loose a major reason for pushing innovation in graphics.
>Bad news for us all.
>
>William
>

That news was out yesterday and not today and Nvidia have already
responded saying it is not true. They are killing their chipset
development branch for one year though until the outcome of a court
case with Intel is decided.

http://www.driverheaven.net/news/190...ml#post1301104

"These are obviously rather bold claims indeed and I decided to give
Nvidia a call this afternoon to get their feedback on the
aforementioned claims. An Nvidia spokesperson told me "There is no
truth to this. Charlie has become a sponsored site of his sole
advertiser. Look at his website it looks like an AMD ad." Nvidia also
assured me with a chuckle that they are not 'abandoning the mid or
high end markets'."

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:01:40 +1100, "DRS" <>
wrote:


>Even when Charlie's analysis is taken with a sufficiently large grain of
>salt it is clear Nvidia is in deep cow-dung. Will it do a 3dfx? Maybe not.
>It has lots of money in the bank right now. But its manufacturing costs are
>higher than ATI's which means its retail prices are higher too, meaning ATI
>is giving more bang for your buck (what a turn around from 2 years ago,
>eh?). Nvidia has also lost a lot of credibility with OEMs. Check out the
>video options on the big laptop vendors like Dell, HP and Apple - lots more
>ATI, much less Nvidia. That is not your ordinary case of swings and
>roundabouts, with ATI taking its turn in front. Nvidia's bad engineering
>decisions, the lies upon lies, and the money it's cost the OEMs in the
>process is going to hurt it hard for a long time.
>
>
Yes, but we really don't want AMD/ATI to have a monopoly so lets not
wish for Nvidias demise. AMD is losing lots of money themselves in the
CPU market so it's not all a bed of roses form them either.