- NVIDIA defective mobile chips - Intel talk about optimization under multi core - Via Nano in August - Nvidia lowered the price of GT2xx chips -

Today computer news : 2008 - 07 - 03

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DATE:2008-07-03

We already reached the third calendar quarter, and computer producers begin to correct their forecasts relative to the financial results of the second quarter. Associate got some result of NVIDIA activity for the second quarter : loss  of $150-200 mln., connected with expenditures on the guarantee repair , recovery of some mobile video chips and chipset . Poor materials quality ( core packing )  led to their higher failure level . Defects were removed, but NVIDIA does not exclude the possibility that the same problem may appear in another video chip and chipset. According to the description, problem is somehow connected with the thermal condition of the indicated components , which is used in laptop computers. The profit indices of NVIDIA in the second quarter can be also reduced due to the low global demand and delays in the production of new integrated chipset. The forced reduction in the GeForce 9800 GTX prices will also affect NVIDIA financial position. Actions NVIDIA fell yesterday by 4% against the background of similar news.

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DATE:2008-07-03

Four core processors solidly entered in desktop computer ,  their potential was not opened completely, but at the end of this year intel  will present the bloomfield processors , which will obtain eight virtual core due to the support of hyper-Threading technology . With passage to the thinner technical process the quantity of virtual cores can be increased to twelve. Moreover the impressive number of cores will be used in larrabee, which will be built on the x86 architecture . Specifically, the succession of model  programming in one of the main larrabee advantages . Intel Representatives even now attempt to convince software developers to reexamine approach with regard to the applications optimization  under multi-core  processors. In this case intel representatives recognize that this programming approach  requires high expenditures and thinking reconstruction. In order to optimize old applications under multi core  platforms,  developers have to practically rewrite them in new code. This is an enormous task considering the amount of software available today .

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DATE:2008-07-03

VIA companies, promised to begin the deliveries of nano (Isaiah) processors  in the third quarter of the present year. Fujitsu company will release those processors on 65 nm technology and with the passage on 45 nm technical process the corresponding orders can be charged To TSMC. Now VIA will start the delivery of nano processors in August or September this year. As minimum three important computer producers already placed orders for obtaining these processors In June Via incomes were reduced by 7,3% in comparison with the previous month, and by 58% in comparison with the analogous period of last year. Company connects this with the chipset delivery , witch formed up to 60% of VIA gain . In the second 2008 half Via company intends to improve its financial indices due to the active deliveries of nano and C7- M processors .

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DATE:2008-07-03

The announcement Of radeon HD 4870 showed that this video card witch cost $299 can completely  competes with the GeForce GTX 260, In this case the NVIDIA card price  is equal to $399 (recommended),witch is even far from the real retail prices. Two-chip R700 ( $499) will prove to be faster than the one chip GeForce GTX 280, whose price is equal to $649. In this situation it is clear that NVIDIA will be forced to reduce its prices . Associate reports that from the present day NVIDIA partners will obtain The GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 on lower price: the first will cost $90 lower, and the second  $30 (lower). Let us recall that NVIDIA do not have a heavy stock of space for price maneuver  , since GT200 chip include 1,4 billion transistors . The only solution for this situation can be the 55 NM chip GT200b.

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