Quote Originally Posted by Blacky View Post
well yea but the difference is that ATi is already working on 28nm, while nvidia is not, they barely managed to get GF100 to 40nm (and still having issues), so I don't think bringing it to 28nm wouldn't be an easy task either...and by recent history ATi always gets die shrink faster
they are not? what makes you think that?
do you remember how jensen told tsmc to hurry up with 28nm?
and after tsmc faced problems with 28nm, jensen mentioned how they might work with GF instead, who are agressively ramping up 28nm...

nvidia knows they need 28nm... they could in theory completely screw up 40nm and not sell any 40nm fermi parts... it would hurt them... a lot... but they could survive that without too serious problems... 28nm is where it gets serious... if they cant get 28nm working right, THEN nvidia might bleed so bad it will take a while for them to recover, if ever...