Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
7000 chips good availability? dont think so.
the gtx280 launched with less than that, much less...

Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
A quarter is 3 months.
doh
yeah, so thats 25.000 wafers per month then...

Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
That capacity is for all customers and all chips, not just GF100. And yes, 7000 GF100's a month would be a complete joke.
how so? ati sold 1 million rv870 and rv840 chips in about 3 months, thats 333.000 per month... im pretty sure 5870s were only around 30.000-100.000 per month...

25.000 wafers per month
worst case, nvidia gets only 8000 of those
worst case, fermi yields are 10% so they can get only 80.000 fermis per month if they use all their capacity for fermi

best case, nvidia gets 15.000 of the wafers
best case, fermi yields are 30% (which is very good for a huge chip)
so nvidia can produce 450.000 fermis per month if they use all their capacity for fermi.

i find it hard to believe that nvidia is limited by tsmcs capacity...