I remember people saying 3dfx wouldn't be taken over and it happened doesn't matter who or what you are your never too big to go down. Yes even if the current company goes down nvidia will continue in the market as it would be bought by someone and they will not want the exspense of rebranding as well as the cost of purchasing the company in the first place. this is just another example of how nvidia have gotten complacent and arrogant in the treatment of their customers it is nice though to see it isn't just us little folks they bs.
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Apple suggests Nvidia is dishonest about GPU failures
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NV are prepping CUDA to be their fall-back if/when they get squeezed out of the desktop graphics market. A sizeable part of the GT200's core transistor budget has been spent on functionality that isn't even used by games - but is very useful for scientific endeavours.
ATI used to be massive (largest graphics manufacturer by far, at least 80% market share) - they were in a spot of bother for quite a while when 3D accelerators came out - along with competition in the 2D space. They took refuge by selling to OEMs, their cards could perform partial MPEG2 decoding which OEMs loved. Watch DVDs on your PC!
Matrox were also very large - they've now taken refuge in the multi-monitor workstation market.
3dfx were huge - but they forgot to diversify and failed.
NV have diversified, they have products at almost every price point, the FX5200 is STILL sold today! They're moving into the scientific market because the profits are ludicrously high, and there's always demand for faster machines. CUDA mixed with a very powerful GPU results in $$.
Of course if NV go too soon, ATI will jack up their prices. ATI never used to be cheap. Same as when AMD were on the top - the FX CPUs weren't exactly 'cheap'. So lets, not write off NV too soon, eh?
ATI used to be massive (largest graphics manufacturer by far, at least 80% market share) - they were in a spot of bother for quite a while when 3D accelerators came out - along with competition in the 2D space. They took refuge by selling to OEMs, their cards could perform partial MPEG2 decoding which OEMs loved. Watch DVDs on your PC!
Matrox were also very large - they've now taken refuge in the multi-monitor workstation market.
3dfx were huge - but they forgot to diversify and failed.
NV have diversified, they have products at almost every price point, the FX5200 is STILL sold today! They're moving into the scientific market because the profits are ludicrously high, and there's always demand for faster machines. CUDA mixed with a very powerful GPU results in $$.
Of course if NV go too soon, ATI will jack up their prices. ATI never used to be cheap. Same as when AMD were on the top - the FX CPUs weren't exactly 'cheap'. So lets, not write off NV too soon, eh?
Tbh it might mean that the investment they have put into their next lineup (and/or the one after that) might need to reap larger rewards than usual, which would obviously be a boon for us consumers...
Ive always had the feeling that theyve held back on the product lineup, due to not needing to push the envelope asof late - perhaps this is where theyll need to bring out something much more superior but due to their financial issues ensure its at a reasonable price point to reap larger profits and stablise what is happening to them. Its exactly what ATI/AMD have done, except I think nVidia need to go further performance wise to differentiate them...
I cant see nVidia being massively affected by whats happening with their portable GPUs since its just a small part of what they do - but its a damn good wake up call...
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Ive always had the feeling that theyve held back on the product lineup, due to not needing to push the envelope asof late - perhaps this is where theyll need to bring out something much more superior but due to their financial issues ensure its at a reasonable price point to reap larger profits and stablise what is happening to them. Its exactly what ATI/AMD have done, except I think nVidia need to go further performance wise to differentiate them...
I cant see nVidia being massively affected by whats happening with their portable GPUs since its just a small part of what they do - but its a damn good wake up call...
Hi btw Boogle - nice to see you still skulking
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Nvidia wont go down, that's not to say they arnt going to suffer some serious damage to there credibility and revenue in turn. I think its a good thing if Nvidia are reminded that they arnt in a position to just hit cruise control and let money come in, they need to put effort into pricing there products and also do more than just re brand and resell it, Lost face in the market place and a hit on sales to big companys would do this so it aint a bad thing!
Ive always had the feeling that theyve held back on the product lineup, due to not needing to push the envelope asof late - perhaps this is where theyll need to bring out something much more superior but due to their financial issues ensure its at a reasonable price point to reap larger profits and stablise what is happening to them. Its exactly what ATI/AMD have done, except I think nVidia need to go further performance wise to differentiate them...
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Definitely, they recycled the 8800GTX for aaggeeesss while ATI introduced at least 2 generations. I'm sure the Crysis devs were expecting NV/ATI to continue doubling performance every year - then Very High would have come out in a generation or two. Just like how Far Cry operated, initially no GPU could run it maxed out, but ~2 gens (little over a year) later you could.
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