Read somewhere that Nvidia will stop the production of this chip to spot his efforts on NV31, NV34/35.
Great, post a link so we can gander too. If you go to www.nvidia.com you will see that the FX is very much alive and well and will be in consumers hands very shortly.
Yay!
lets all believe the rumor that was started by a guy who knows a guy who heard it from a guy who might have read it on a bathroom wall written there by some nvidia janitor who was denied his payraise.
every piece of computer hardware is born dead
essentially if you read theinquirer; someone posted in x-3dfx forums that there'd only be 100k units shipped and that the product was otherwise dead
of course
nvidia might only sell 100k units by the time the next version of the chip is out in may/june
so
whats it matter anyway?
i was about to say apparently this "leak" started on a 3dfx forum. But it is speculation and hyperbole at best.
i also think it is rather interesting how there are some saying that because the FX is late that is the end of nVidia or they are seriously hurting.
A quick peak at financials on the web shows that nVidia has about 5x the CASH on hand that ATI does despite ATI being the current high performance leader in the add in card games market.
nVidia may have stumbled but they are very far from being dead.
nvidia is firmly entrenched into the OEM market; high performance is not where they make their money; having the fastest card is just advertisement.
nvidia also deals very successfully with motherboard chipsets; holding the fastest AMD chipset around as well as one of the most featureful.
I could see nvidia being able to build SGI like machines in the near future.
Could you elaborate a bit on that? Do you mean providing OEM's or partners with custom boards and graphics as either onboard or add in cards?
Interesting to think about regardless.
OEM's like PNY leadtek; dell, apple IBM
people like that
they all sell nvidia and thats where the money comes in from