Photos of GeForce GTX 280 graphics card

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Incompetence = not being able to do such a thing when competitor has done it ages ago.

Oh you mean when a competitor did it out of necessity to find a home for their products because they couldn't compete on the high end?

Of course if they can't compete at the high end, they want to go cheaper, which means they have to make their product cheaper in every way possible, including risking on process.

Do you really think NVIDIA can have the fastest GPUs on the planet, but can't go to 55nm?

It's not even a matter of NVIDIA having the process, because they just put in an order to TSMC the same way AMD does. Yields on relatively new processes (new for the fab in question) can be a and it's a huge risk.

What if I told you that for your new house you're building from the ground up, there's a new foundation technology which only 1 house has been built on before and it's only been out for a year, so the kinks are not necessarily all worked out? Want to invest your $600,000 on top of it?