My goodness, that is actually way worse then I imagined it would be. I hope nVidia has got some serious reserves, because they are going to need it if this article is anywhere near true.
$500 per chip?At $5,000 per wafer, 10 good dies per wafer, with good being a very relative term, that puts cost at around $500 per chip, over ten times ATI's cost. The BoM cost for a GTX480 is more than the retail price of an ATI HD5890, a card that will slap it silly in the benchmarks. At these prices, even the workstation and compute cards start to have their margins squeezed.
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