It would seem that Charlie Demerjian over at the Inq has found a “smoking gun” in the issue with nVidia’s desktop GPUs (the same one that nVidia denies even exists). As we have reported before nVidia is claiming there is only a small number of mobile GPUs affected. They are also claiming (here) that they are “stepping up” and fixing it, (according to an interview with nVidia’s CEO). This same CEO (that Derek Perez found boring) continued to tow the party line that it was only mobile GPUs that were affected when interviewed at NVISION 08.
Author: Sean Kalinich
Published: August 26th 2008
Type: Editorial (Analysis)
Spelling and Grammatical editor: Planetx64 Staff
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Well it seems that at IDF Charlie got a hold of a Product/ Process change notice issued by nVidia regarding the bump material used on the G86 that would seem to indicate that nVidia might be telling the whole truth about exactly what GPUs are really affected. This PCN is a Class 1 Category Major revision that is setup "To increase supply and enhance package robustness,", while at the same time "There will be no adverse change to form, fit, function or reliability." Those two just don’t seem to match up. We will see if we can obtain a copy of this from nVidia, but you do not have to be a fortune teller to see that it is unlikely we will see a copy of this, or that this information hitting the streets is just plain bad for nVidia.