We'd like to know where
Nvidia has apparently already shipped hundreds of thousands of Fermi GPUs and it says it's churning them out like sausages.
During a recent conference call Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun
Huang claims that the GPU is in full production and that the company
has seen some rather strong demand. Huang also noted that Nvidia raked
up record revenues from Tesla processors and that its Quadro business
is also going strong.
We must admit that we are somewhat miffed by the announcement, as
Nvidia has struggled to ship Fermi-based cards in significant volumes
over the past several weeks. The company launched three Fermi based
products thus far, the consumer oriented GTX 480 and GTX 470 and the
Tesla C2050 computing board. However, the company is still lagging
behind AMD, which has already shipped millions of DX11 parts.
The company also posted strong revenues and profits. Its revenue rose
to $1.0 billion, a 2 percent increase sequentially and a 51 percent
jump compared to the same quarter last year. Profits rose from $131.1 million to $137.6 sequentially, while in the same quarter last year Nvidia incurred a $201.3 million loss.