Although many had lambasted me and have called the Inq and Charlie Demerjian everything under the sun that means liar and FUD spreader. It is interesting to note the nVidia has now released a new PCN.
This time for the G92 and G92b (almost all 65nm and 55nm parts), I think with the PCN for the G84 and G86 and now this PCN for the G92 we can safely say that nVidia is not being honest.
Author: Sean Kalinich
Published: August 28th 2008
Type: Editorial (Comment)
Spelling and Grammatical editor: Planetx64 Staff
Some of the more interesting points are the list of affected GPUs. Some 30 odd GPUs are affected by this change from High Lead to Eutectic Solder.
The change order is almost identical to the one for the G84/G86 with the exception of the dates, this one has a submittal date of June 14 2008, a planned implementation date of July 28 and a proposed first ship date of August 17. These dates are significant as they are just over a month from introduction. Yet the proposed shipping date has just past a few days ago. This means that if you ave one of the affected parts you probably have a life limited dud.
The article goes on to state that failure rates for the 55nm and 65nm parts are coming higher than expected (in the teens) and that nVidia made this change before launch but still has sold parts with high lead and are going to do so until inventory is depleted.
I have said this for some time now, the problem is there, now we have to see how deep and how bad this goes, the ominous line from nVidia’s 8-K filing comes to mind “There can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products.”
Meanwhile nVidia continues to tell everyone that will listen there is nothing wrong and it is a small batch of parts.