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2003-04-28, 13:47:25
Nvidia confirms its errors with the NV30
Too early with 0.13µ and DDR 2
By Fuad Abazovic in Cannes: Sonntag 27 April 2003, 12:19
I know that Fudo can be a little eccentric, but throwing him off the Nvidia stand at CeBIT was really going far too far - unnamed AMD Euro executive
THE CEO OF NVIDIA confirmed in front of a crowded room of partners in Cannes that the NV30 Ultra also-known-as the Geforce FX 5800 Ultra failed to fulfil many of the things that both it and its partners expected.
This is a quite brave statement in into speech that Jen Hsun said in Cannes but we believe it was fair and necessary to say what went wrong to all of its partners.
Many people that we met from Nvidia's clutch or cabal of partners claimed that "the last few months were rough" and some were even fair enough to say that they lost some market share and money.
They now they feel much better now they know that Nvidia has a new card to play. "Nvidia deserves a second chance," some partners said to us, and this is a good statement if you bear in mind that ATI has never been so strong.
In our Cebit conversation with high ATI executives about 0.13 micron/marchitecture, he said: "Now you know why R300 was 0.15 microns" referring to the NV30 Ultra debacle. To remind you, it's still almost impossible to get any cards in late April almost six months after Nvidia introduced it at Comdex.
This statements finally confirms that Nvidia was wrong to blame the press – including the INQUIRER -- for the Geforce FX position on the market. Instead, they have to blame memory availability, noisy cooling solution, too hot DDR 2 and not the GPU as many previously thought and TSMC having a few problems with the trick .13µ (micron) process technology.
The marchitecture was simply not ready for Nvidia design. The INQUIRER certainly didn't make DDR 2 memory hot, or FX flow too noisy or 0.13 microns too hard to develop.
Nvidia has not spoken to us officially since Cebit 2003 because of all of its recent troubles, and the good and bad things that we posted on Inquirer. That's what we do here, we post news whether it's liked or disliked.
Too early with 0.13µ and DDR 2
By Fuad Abazovic in Cannes: Sonntag 27 April 2003, 12:19
I know that Fudo can be a little eccentric, but throwing him off the Nvidia stand at CeBIT was really going far too far - unnamed AMD Euro executive
THE CEO OF NVIDIA confirmed in front of a crowded room of partners in Cannes that the NV30 Ultra also-known-as the Geforce FX 5800 Ultra failed to fulfil many of the things that both it and its partners expected.
This is a quite brave statement in into speech that Jen Hsun said in Cannes but we believe it was fair and necessary to say what went wrong to all of its partners.
Many people that we met from Nvidia's clutch or cabal of partners claimed that "the last few months were rough" and some were even fair enough to say that they lost some market share and money.
They now they feel much better now they know that Nvidia has a new card to play. "Nvidia deserves a second chance," some partners said to us, and this is a good statement if you bear in mind that ATI has never been so strong.
In our Cebit conversation with high ATI executives about 0.13 micron/marchitecture, he said: "Now you know why R300 was 0.15 microns" referring to the NV30 Ultra debacle. To remind you, it's still almost impossible to get any cards in late April almost six months after Nvidia introduced it at Comdex.
This statements finally confirms that Nvidia was wrong to blame the press – including the INQUIRER -- for the Geforce FX position on the market. Instead, they have to blame memory availability, noisy cooling solution, too hot DDR 2 and not the GPU as many previously thought and TSMC having a few problems with the trick .13µ (micron) process technology.
The marchitecture was simply not ready for Nvidia design. The INQUIRER certainly didn't make DDR 2 memory hot, or FX flow too noisy or 0.13 microns too hard to develop.
Nvidia has not spoken to us officially since Cebit 2003 because of all of its recent troubles, and the good and bad things that we posted on Inquirer. That's what we do here, we post news whether it's liked or disliked.