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Nvidia doesn’t want to sell GT200 under cost |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 12:53 |
That is what shortage is all about
As we reported a few days ago, Nvidia is facing a huge
shortage of GT200-based products. Partners are complaining as they cannot get
any serious demand and that Nvidia’s excuse is that they don’t want to lose
money on cards.
Since Radeon 5870, 5850 and upcoming 5700 cards really look,
good it looks like Nvidia wants to leave the market in hands of ATI, at least
until Fermi GT300 comes out. The premature technology announcement about Fermi
is definitely done in order to hurt ATI sales, but ATI definitely has at least two
months head start.
Judging from all this, we expect quite bad Q3 and Q4 financial
scores for Nvidia. Fermi can save Q4 2009 but only if Nvidia comes up with enough
chips, which is again unlikely as this is the biggest technology improvement
since G80 back in 2006.
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