The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[LordEC911]

There you go again, where are you coming up with this range, was it in the silicon quarterly or something....

I call shenanigans, the wafers are more expensive by only $23.99 per wafer and you can take that to the bank, for real...

The difference is, I never asked you to believe me...

A huge cost is R&D. You worry how much the wafers and heatsinks cost, but the real point to consider is R&D. The Fermi architecture, just like the G80 architecture, was a long time in development and expensive to produce. But consider a few points:

I haven't seen anything that's made me believe that NVIDIA will be selling GPUs at a loss. Consider that even with HD5800 out performing NVIDIA parts, NVIDIA is gaining more of the market, selling a ton of GPUs and making a lot of money. Even IF they were selling GF100 at a loss, they aren't in AMD's financial shoes.

Amorphous

Right... Lots of money is spent on R&D.
Lots of money is also spent on operational expenses.

Ummm... pretty sure Nvidia lost marketshare the last couple of quarters.