Nvidia's Fermi Chips Supposedly Available in Low Quantities in March
Nvidia's Fermi Chips Supposedly Available in Low Quantities in March
Posted 01/11/2010 at 6:46pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Nvidia has been largely silent on their upcoming Fermi GPUs. Now we’re hearing that the new line of consumer DirectX 11 graphics processors will be going into production around the third week of February. Apparently, “low quantities” will be available in mid-March.
Nvidia has fallen behind GPU rival AMD/ATI since the latter released their first DirectX 11 part last September. The Fermi chips were originally slated for a November release. The delays led some to speculate that Nvidia was shifting their business away from consumer level desktop graphics cards, and toward mobile and enterprise solutions.
When the new chip goes into production, yields are expected to be low. They are, however, expected to be higher than current Radeon 5800 yields, which hover around 4%. With all the delays, hopefully Nvidia can at least get it right and really knock our socks off in the performance department.
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Razorman
January 12, 2010 at 2:37pm
Please don't post FUD like 4%, that would be plain ridiculous! Yields are estimated to be between 60-80% currently...
Even Fudo knows and that site is pro-*vidia.
JohnP
January 12, 2010 at 12:52pm
40% was the magic number. I gotta go through the archives to pull this up...
http://www.techspot.com/news/37419-AMD-40nm-yields-have-stabilized-supplies-improving.html
Here it is. TYPO!
jrnull1
January 11, 2010 at 10:17pm
Checked out the link ,but the numbers i seen were 40% Yields and 4% Revenue increase
Edit -- Sorry screwed up the reply. This is tot first post
TRaSh80 RULES!!!
karnak
January 11, 2010 at 8:35pm
4% radeon yields? Over 2 million units sold? Something doesn't add up here...
I predict, if anything, Fermi will cost 25% more for a 10% performance premium. Nvidia held the crown for a long time, but no more.
Ryan Whitwam
January 11, 2010 at 8:56pm
I thought it sounded weird too, but Tom's Hardware posted the figure twice. 5800 series, 4% yield.
QUINTIX256
January 11, 2010 at 8:01pm
http://vr-zone.com/articles/tsmc-40nm-yield-issues-resurface/7963.html
This is the first place I heard any yield being as low as 4%.
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
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