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S|A (Click link at your own risk) Nvidia threatens it's partners at CeBIT

Most people will reply they don't believe it, having seen a couple vid's on ***** and elsewhere of people asking questions about Fermi, and numerous people saying they can't say anything, with one saying they were asked to sign NDA's very recently, I believe it.

LOL, before they do a hardware showing of Fermi, ie the same demo's they showed a couple months back, Nvidia people are wheeling closed and locked boxes in, hooking them up, covered in plastic, with guards 24/7, then dragging them off when they are done.

Everything else at the show is as per usual, fairly easy to see, stuff thats out in public anyway. Its hilarious how closed off they are about something less than a month away till the "release", at a huge trade show where people love launching things. Partners hate not showing things like Fermi at big shows like Cebit.

The simple fact there isn't any press showings of the cards behind the scenes is enough of a sign itself that there's a problem. Normally partners, for most products, are allowed to show them stuff behind closed doors as long as press sign an NDA to not talk about it till a certain time.
 
Christ, whos running nvidia these days a mishmash of hitler and stalin? Oh wait, even worse:

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What? A manufacturer requests its vendors to sign an NDA at and expo?

OUTRAGEOUS I DEMAND BLOOD!

They really have gone too far this time I cant believe it its awful omg!!!!
 
Yeh it's probably true, if the card was really that good, there would be no need for NDA in Nvidia's current circumstances.
 
yeah not good news at all if true, i cant see what Nvidia gain from this? cause even performance is on par with ATi or even lower then you cant delay the inevitable. and then on the flip side all this secretcy isnt doing there rep any good at all
 
queamin said:
What worries me is that normally anything positive nvidia show it or talk about it.it must be hard for their partners.
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I don't think Nvidia have ever shown performance numbers or clock speeds before a card's official announcement? :confused:

Hell I don't think they've ever divulged so much information before a launch before, actually. I mean since months ago we've known the highest end version of the chip can have 512 shaders, a 384-bit bus width and GDDR5 memory and this was straight from Nvidia.
 
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The partners just desperately need something to sell other than GTX250's.
I doubt there will be any real quantity delivered to partners for a few months to go, and even then... will they be profitable?
Also how hard will they be hit by Nvidia's 1 year warranty ?, get ready to see a few more BFG's.
 
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Lightnix said:
I don't think Nvidia have ever shown performance numbers or clock speeds before a card's official announcement? :confused:

Hell I don't think they've ever divulged so much information before a launch before, actually. I mean since months ago we've known the highest end version of the chip can have 512 shaders, a 384-bit bus width and GDDR5 memory and this was straight from Nvidia.
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What are the clocks? Will the highest end part actually have 512 shaders?
 
Lightnix said:
I don't think Nvidia have ever shown performance numbers or clock speeds before a card's official announcement? :confused:

Hell I don't think they've ever divulged so much information before a launch before, actually. I mean since months ago we've known the highest end version of the chip can have 512 shaders, a 384-bit bus width and GDDR5 memory and this was straight from Nvidia.
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That more likely true but with the show 3 or 4 weeks before launch and the card late,i would have thought they show something even if there is no frame rates to make the partners some what happier.

edit:- i think they let the information out because of all the stuff about fermi being late hot and power hungry and not hitting the clocks
 
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rhys216 said:
What are the clocks? Will the highest end part actually have 512 shaders?
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No I mean those are basically the two pieces of information (other than price, of course) they're really hiding at the moment, and they never release those bits of information before launch anyway. I mean Nvidia has basically publicly stated all of the other pieces of information about the GF100 chip, which is a huge amount of information to give away before launch. I think people are reading too much into their lack of information giving when really they're giving far more information away than is usual.

I mean sure Nvidia hypes its products, lots, but these are all either side products (Tegra 2) or products they've already announced (PhysX, CUDA, etc.), not future high-end GPUs (I mean really, did they tell us anything officially about GT200 before it was released? Not to my recollection at least).
 
Lightnix said:
I mean sure Nvidia hypes its products, lots, but these are all either side products (Tegra 2) or products they've already announced (PhysX, CUDA, etc.), not future high-end GPUs (I mean really, did they tell us anything officially about GT200 before it was released? Not to my recollection at least).
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That's business 101 -Don't market your next gen too much because you will kill sales for the current gen, The difference this time is there is no GT200 sales to kill and the only sales to be killed is AMD's so Nvidia would only benefit if the card was really awesome and it spilled the beans.
 
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