Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
if they wait just 1 year the value of those super gpus drops like a rock to about where things are now. sure yeilds will be higher, but R&D wont change, and their per chip margin will be severely hurt. if they wait 2 years its almost worthless. getting something out AHEAD of schedule in the world of semiconductors is the best thing ever. delaying that costs millions.
That makes absolutely no sense. Holding back the release of a super fast GPU (due to yields, no competition, etc) would have absolutely no effect on it's retail pricing. All that matters is the chips performance when compared to it's competition on release day. If a company held back release of some super-GPU a year or even two, and upon release it still destroyed the competition... pricing would still be whatever the market dictates regardless of the delay. It's not like they would be required to sell it at a price point as if it were a one or two year old product. In reality, such a delay would allow for the manufacturing process to become very good, driving the price/wafer/chip much lower, which in turn would result in the profit margin for the super-GPU to be far higher than if it were released back when it was not necessary.