Anand weighs in on Charlie's and Fuds "NVIDIA Problems" Claims

jmke · 14th October 2009, 08:38

NVIDIA could get into a price war with AMD, but given that both companies make their chips at the same place, and NVIDIA’s costs are higher - it’s not a war that makes sense to fight.

NVIDIA told me two things. One, that they have shared with some OEMs that they will no longer be making GT200b based products. That’s the GTX 260 all the way up to the GTX 285. The EOL (end of life) notices went out recently and they request that the OEMs submit their allocation requests asap otherwise they risk not getting any cards.

The second was that despite the EOL notices, end users should be able to purchase GeForce GTX 260, 275 and 285 cards all the way up through February of next year.

If you look carefully, neither of these statements directly supports or refutes the two articles above. NVIDIA is very clever.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3659&p=1

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jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Anand weighs in on Charlie's and Fuds "NVIDIA Problems" Claims NVIDIA could get into a price war with AMD, but given that both companies make their chips at the same place, and NVIDIA’s costs are higher - it’s not a war that makes sense to fight. NVIDIA told me two things. One, that they have shared with some OEMs that they will no longer be making GT200b based products. That’s the GTX 260 all the way up to the GTX 285. The EOL (end of life) notices went out recently and they request that the OEMs submit their allocation requests asap otherwise they risk not getting any cards. The second was that despite the EOL notices, end users should be able to purchase GeForce GTX 260, 275 and 285 cards all the way up through February of next year. If you look carefully, neither of these statements directly supports or refutes the two articles above. NVIDIA is very clever. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3659&p=1 __________________