Nvidia has serious chip troubles

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what a time for something like this to hit this affects laptops mostly though anything is possible

"If you're the type to watch the late stock tickers, you might have noticed that NVIDIA's stock just took a pretty big hit, down 24 percent to $13.56 -- that's because the company just informed investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at "higher than normal rates," and that it's lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure. NVIDIA will be taking a $150M to $250M charge against earnings next quarter to cover the cost of repairing and replacing the affected chips, but didn't specifically announce what products were defective, just that they include GPUs and "media and communications processors."

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/nvidia-says-significant-quantities-of-laptop-gpus-are-defectiv/
 
Way to misrepresent what the article actually talked about. You should work for the Inquirer.
 
KENNYB said:
Way to misrepresent what the article actually talked about. You should work for the Inquirer.
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lol +1

I'm wondering if the chips affected are of the mid to low end of their mobile line? Maybe that could be one of the reasons my sister's just ordered Dell 15" laptop is on backorder.
 
They'd almost have to be the mid to low level laptop parts. Only area that could have enough volume to cause this much of a problem. If you look at the wording of the article it sounds like integrated parts that are having problems.
 
Has anyone actually taken a look at the HD4870 power consumption chart from H? thats pretty gross. Seems to me the RV770, as good as the SKUs look, has its own problems.
 
Laptop GPU + Failure == NO SHIT. You can ebay plenty of Thinkpad T40's, T41's... with "intermittent" GPU problems.
 
Man I wish Kyle would start slapping all these inq posters with the banhammer... :(
 
What you quoted, besides being totally misleading, is not even written in the article linked. But, its true, Nvidia has seen better days.
 
Just to clarify and to quote a reputable source (eetimes) -

" EE Times:

Nvidia takes charge for bad chips, but who is to blame?










Mark LaPedus
Page 1 of 2
EE Times
(07/02/2008 5:06 PM EDT)


SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Nvidia Corp. plans to take a charge from $150-to-$200 million to cover anticipated warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs arising from a ''weak die/packaging material'' in select devices.

At first, Nvidia--which now faces a huge shortfall in sales for the quarter--pointed the finger at one of its foundry partners: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC). The silicon foundry giant apparently does some level of the IC-packaging process for Nvidia. The ''packaging (material) was supplied by TSMC,'' according to a spokesman for Nvidia, in an e-mail when first explaining the problem.


Then, in another e-mail, Nvidia did an about-face. ''Bottom line: We take responsibilty for this,'' the Nvidia spokesman said. ''We worked closely with TSMC on packaging and the material.''


The suspect material was used in select graphics processors and MCPs in notebook systems. Certain notebook configurations with the suspect devices ''are failing in the field at higher than normal rates,'' according to graphics-chip giant Nvidia (Santa Clara, Calif.)."
 
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