Charlie said specifically that 7 chips out of the risk wafers booted. He must have a couple sources that work at TSMC. Otherwise Nvidia would have sued him in a heartbeat. On that note He would have been sued many times over for his articles on Nvidia if they were false.

The fact is he hasn't been sued or armtwisted because Nvidia has nothing on him. He even borrowed an electron microscope to prove the defects with the G80 and G90 series. Sure if you are an Nvidia fan you won't like what he posts.....but please for the love of god show proof when bashing the man.

On the GT300 fiasco. it is a completely new architecture down to the cache. Even making it on 65nm would be terribly difficult given the complexity of it. add to that 40nm process.....yea 7 chips sounds about right.

They were hot wafers, it was the 1st batch, and given the yield it looks like the CEO saw the writing on the wall just looking at the design of the chip and exercised his stock option even b4 TSMC knew anything about GT300.

GT200 yields were awful when the process started and it cost Nvidia a lot of money because the yields practically killed their profit margin. And now U have the GT300...a much more complex chip than the GT200 on an even newer process, This is a huge mistake for Nvidia and it's about time for people to quit the kool aid.

Flame me bash me IDC, when the chip is pushed back to allow a redesign just take a step back and look at Nvidia's actions over the last couple years since the release of the Radeon 4000 series, you just might see Nvidia as I do.....a company that needed a reality check. I don't want Nvidia to crash and burn, I want both companies to have a staggered release scheduele that gives the performance crown to the newest products. it's good for innovation.