Nvidia has serious yield problems with the GT200.

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Sorry, just can't resist it, if we are talking about graphics card that have gone obsolete overnight and thus need to be now sold cheaply, someones gotta mention ATI's 38xx cards too.
Seriously, I really wanna know who wants to buy them now, and for what price?

38xx Obsolete? By what standards? inviable at current price point yes, but obsolete no. All previous cards by Nvidia have been superseded by Nvidia products so by your definition anything but a GTX260 or GTX280 from the Nvidia camp is also obsolete. Though perhaps not quite so obsolete with GTX2xx being so ridiculously expensive.



I wish I could find the links, I tried. Sorry I couldn't. I did read that the GTX280 was costing around $100-$110 per GPU to produce and that around 97 of these would fit on a 300mm wafer. Wafer costs are dependent on process size and the number of mask layers.