The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[CadESin]

Tegra is cool, and I love my Zune HD as it loads songs much faster then a Ipod Touch. But Nvidia is a GPU company, thats what they do. Sure they have made chip-sets, good ones too, back in the my AMD FX Nvidia was the only chip set I would use. They no longer can make chip sets for the big markets, Ion has more or less failed due to how Intel is pricing Atom and the only point of Ion is to say you can "kinda" play games on it and maybe watch a blue-ray if you can find a dual core Ion box, which is hard to find retail here in VT (we only have best buy).

I would expect the new MS phone to use Tegra so theres some money for Nvidia. If Nvida wants to turn in to Via and make net-book and cell phone chips, go them. But that won't help the market much when it comes to GPU pricing.

[Your_Boss]

Where's "Fermi Thread Part 3"? Another usless 670 posts of crap!


..damn 671, mine!

[***Deimos***]

Tegra is cool, and I love my Zune HD as it loads songs much faster then a Ipod Touch. But Nvidia is a GPU company, thats what they do. Sure they have made chip-sets, good ones too, back in the my AMD FX Nvidia was the only chip set I would use. They no longer can make chip sets for the big markets, Ion has more or less failed due to how Intel is pricing Atom and the only point of Ion is to say you can "kinda" play games on it and maybe watch a blue-ray if you can find a dual core Ion box, which is hard to find retail here in VT (we only have best buy).

I would expect the new MS phone to use Tegra so theres some money for Nvidia. If Nvida wants to turn in to Via and make net-book and cell phone chips, go them. But that won't help the market much when it comes to GPU pricing.

You very much underestimate the performance and features of ION/ION2 and Tegra. They are both outstanding products - leaders in their segments.

But, you are right about nVidia's focus being off. ION is at mercy of Intel's pricing whims, and thus low (lower than Intel) margin. Tegra is just starting to grow a market, and likewise a small chip with little margins.

Let not forget nVidia has no license for DMI.. ie Core i3/i5/i7. Once they replace the Core2Duos in the market, ION will be platform-less.

nVidia built the whole "empire" on high end graphics. Consumers dont buy a $50 silicon chip, but the promise of revolutionary gaming experience delivered through a $300-$600 video card. Side projects like ION/Tegra are good for some spare change, but not the bread and butter of the business.

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