NVIDIA Fakes Fermi Boards at GPU Conference

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Charlie over at Semi-Accurate says he has photographic evidence that the Fermi boards, shown at NVIDIA’s tech conference earlier this week, were fakes. Thanks to Ed Olson for the link.

In a really pathetic display, Nvidia actually faked the introduction of its latest video card, because it simply doesn't have boards to show. Why? Because it didn't get enough parts to properly bring them up, much less make demo boards. Why do we say they are faked? If you look at the pictures, it is painfully obvious that Fermi cards don't exist.
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from article said:
Since the company seems to have forgotten to mail us a copy, we will point to the ones at PC Watch.
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Was this sarcasm or did he really expect nVidia to acknowledge his existence?
 
ROFL he used his own past article and an article from fudzilla as a source.
 
All the write-ups I've seen show nvidia acknowledging that all their demos are running on current hardware and not the upcoming cards. So if the guy held up a "mock up" in his hand, exactly where is the scandal? Mock-ups aren't allowed? They're "pathetic" now and worthy of breathless investigations?
 
Another anti-nVidia article written by good 'ol Charlie?
Nothing to see here, move along.
 
I don't really care one way or the other especially about marketing crap. Charlie Demerjian seams to take every thing that Nvidia does personally.
 
Isnt it possible that the demos were done on real silicon but the cards they showed everybody were fake?
 
um, I kinda thought it was pretty obviously a prop. I am not seeing this as that big of an issue, the first couple of side lots were said to have been pretty bad. by all reports they have working silicon even if they didn't have an actually production card to show off (and engineering sample would have looked bad I guess)
 
Hurin said:
All the write-ups I've seen show nvidia acknowledging that all their demos are running on current hardware and not the upcoming cards. So if the guy held up a "mock up" in his hand, exactly where is the scandal? Mock-ups aren't allowed? They're "pathetic" now and worthy of breathless investigations?
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that's charlie for you, yeah its kinda sleazy to make it look like it was the actual product but that man has an outright talent to make mountains out of mole hills.
 
Valset said:
that's charlie for you, yeah its kinda sleazy to make it look like it was the actual product but that man has an outright talent to make mountains out of mole hills.
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It's a shame that [H] so regularly perpetuates it though.

But then again, we're here posting about it. So mission accomplished.
 
Hurin said:
It's a shame that [H] so regularly perpetuates it though.

But then again, we're here posting about it. So mission accomplished.
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Perpetuates? Sure only if you take everything so seriously. :rolleyes:

It seemed pretty obvious to me that Steve posted it with intent of saying "this is going to crack you guys up - check this out."
 
Seems pretty obvious that with the ATI launch of the 5800 series nVidia is scrambling for attention. The release of the Fermi white paper sounded like " oh we can do that too " and now the need to show the physical existance of 'something'. For gods sake nVidia, suck it up, finish an ass kicking GPU, then throw your party. Paper launches are so last year.
 
damn, no edit, and forgot to remove last

fail lol
 
Hurin said:
It's a shame that [H] so regularly perpetuates it though.

But then again, we're here posting about it. So mission accomplished.
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Because ignoring news is better?

Some news we post is just so that you guys can scrutinize / comment on / debunk / prove. That is the way it works and that is what is happening now in this very thread. Our readers can make their own decisions and come to their own conclusions.

I've said this a billion times already but...we POST the news, we don't make the news. If you do not like this news item, wait a second, a new one will come along soon. :)

*edit: didn't see Azhar's post above. ;)
 
Hurin said:
It's a shame that [H] so regularly perpetuates it though.

But then again, we're here posting about it. So mission accomplished.
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Steve's job is simply to report news that he thinks you will find of interest. We don't stick our head in the sand just because we may not personally like it.

That all said, I do not think I saw any Fermi hardware running at the show and I think the boards and GPU are samples/mocks etc.

Had Fermi been running, it would have been heavily promoted and show specifically operating.

Charlie's job is to be dramatic and put a heavy spin on things. No biggy, just keep an open mind about what you are reading.

As for what we have suggested, a Q1 or Q2 launch of actually Fermi video cards still seems to be what is going to happen.
 
weebling1 said:
Seems pretty obvious that with the ATI launch of the 5800 series nVidia is scrambling for attention. The release of the Fermi white paper sounded like " oh we can do that too " and now the need to show the physical existance of 'something'. For gods sake nVidia, suck it up, finish an ass kicking GPU, then throw your party. Paper launches are so last year.
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This GPU conference has been planned to a LONG time. It is not a kneejerk reaction to AMD's technology. I am sure though that NV planned on having working silicon here in great quantity when it set all of this up.
 
Heh I suspected this already. I mean what, did they get 7 correctly manufactured GPUs?
 
Auto shows do this sort of thing all the time.
Prototypes are shown that may/may not work and the final version may not look at all like the prototype.

There's no earth-shattering news here.

That Charlie guy always seems to have his panties in a bunch about all things nvidia.

nvidia didn't make anything up..........they said the stuff would be ready when it was ready.
 
majortom1981 said:
Isnt it possible that the demos were done on real silicon but the cards they showed everybody were fake?
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I believe the demos were done on existing hardware, 285/295, etc.. Nv was not hiding that all. The cards they held up and showed off were mockups.
I assumed that they were mockups or non functional engie samples from the release time frame Nv hinted around at anyway. This stuff about the mock up hardly constitutes a scandle imho.
 
Statement from NVIDIA at the bottom of the article:

Note 1: Nvidia PR was asked to comment on the faked cards earlier this evening. Their reply was, "I'm glad you're asking us before you write. That statement is false. The product that we displayed was an actual Fermi board. The demo ran on Fermi silicon."
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Typical Charlie.:rolleyes:
Who gives a rats ass if the boards shown were mockups? Charlie is trying to imply that Nvidia doesn't have production underway, or worse yet the product doesn't even exist. What Charlie doesn't get is the fact that if A is true, it doesn't always mean B is true also.:rolleyes:

Whoop de doo, the board was a mockup. Who cares. That board would have been nonfunctional by the end of the day anyways due to manhandling by reporters zapping it with static electricity every time they touched it.
 
Charlie is just gloating. I swear he must be the ATI's PR department's evil twin brother or something. The only thing is I don't think NV is going to be able to ship Q4 at all. Probably late Q1 at best.
 
Hurin said:
So if the guy held up a "mock up" in his hand, exactly where is the scandal? Mock-ups aren't allowed?
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Well mock-ups are essentially lying. Not that it's not allowed. But it's still "on some bullshit" as the urbanites say.
 
Charlie_The_Tool said:
Then there are the screws. Notice that the three screws that hold the end plate on are, well, generic wood screws. Large flat head phillips screws.
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Really, you can denote exactly what the screw is from just its head?!? Really?!? I have seem self-tapering sheet metal screws with this head style, plastic versions of the same with this head, wood versions of the same with this head. Machine/high thread count metal screws with this head. I could go on, but it's Charley and not worth the effort.

You would think by his MANY MANY unsubstantiated claims aimed at NV that they raped and killed his cat/dog/daughter/mother/whatever at some point in the past. Maybe peed in his corn flakes?
 
Nvidia makes it so hard to believe anything that comes out of their mouth...if their not talking smack about ATI's products their flinging BS about their own. As Kyle said, "paper dragons"!
 
Of course it was a fake. Nvidia didn't have any hardware to show. They were running the demos on G200 hardware. The fake was used as a prop, the same way a wooden sword is a prop in romeo and juliet. However Nvidia's usage of words might have induced some people to believe that it was actual hardware. And that's obviously not the case.

In the end, what you have here is a faked Fermi board. Jen-Hsun held up a scam card. If you watch the video here, he says, "This puppy here, is Fermi". Bullshit.S|A
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Ughhh... why does [H] give this guy the publicity? He's an attention whore / fanboy who covers his website with AMD ads. Has there ever been a less subjective writer?

This guy has the credibility of Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (Iraq's former information minister) and the tact of TMZ.

The only scandal here is the money being put in this retard's pocket for this "breaking" story.
 
Lol. "wood screws"

He has xray vission. From nothing more than the head of the screw he can determine its function. Amazing. Oddly enough i have some "wood screws" that look just like that in my bag o screws for pc builds.

The guy is obviously an amd fan douche.
 
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