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Upcoming NVIDIA GPUs Use the Same Underfill Material

Although it’s been quite a while that NVIDIA's faulty chips issues made all the headlines, more details on them have just recently emerged. This time around, it’s the company's upcoming chips that are getting all the media attention, in regard to the same issues that have also caused some of the...

17 September 2008
05:04 GMT

Dell Extends Support for Defective NVIDIA GPUs

As most of you remember, one of the main reasons for NVIDIA's low financial results for last quarter was the reported issue it had with some of its graphics chips designed for notebooks. The issue has been highly mediated and, up to this moment, a number of Dell, HP and even Apple MacBook Pro users have reported...

19 August 2008
10:32 GMT

More Nvidia Cards Reported to Be Failing

It seems that Nvidia is going deeper with the faulty chips issue. The entire picture of the problem has not been revealed yet, but the company already registers great losses due to the replacement of the M84/M86 cards. The Santa Clara company tries to blame others for the defective products, yet it seems that the cos...

14 August 2008
05:28 GMT

Low Q2 Results for NVIDIA

There is not one thing that can point to a bright future lying ahead for the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA. After AMD finally unveiled its dual-GPU GeForce "destroyer," the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the green company announced that its business had not been doing all that well - and it all shows in the Q2 ...

13 August 2008
06:35 GMT

NVIDIA Faulty Chips Reported on MacBook Pros as Well

NVIDIA announced in July that the company had put aside $150 - $200 million to cover "anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP and GPU products used in noteboo...

11 August 2008
04:20 GMT

Nvidia's M84/M86 Chips to Cause More Problems

Nvidia's M84 and M86 cards turned into a great disaster after all. A lot of consumers were affected by the weak die/packaging material that resulted into the GPUs failing at a certain point. The Santa Clara announced a few weeks ago that it had set aside $200 million to handle the situation, but that might not b...

7 August 2008
03:11 GMT

Dell Also Received Defective Nvidia GPUs

Nvidia has made interesting statements regarding its G84/G86 faulty chips. The graphics cards manufacturer initially announced that only some of its chips experienced problems, and that HP was the only vendor that received them. The company looks to be untruthful, as Dell seems to have unofficially admitted to expe...

28 July 2008
04:55 GMT

NVIDIA Denies Rumors that All of Its Chips Are Faulty

Last Friday we reported that all of NVIDIA's G84 and G86 chips were believed to be faulty. Our piece came in the aftermath of NVIDIA's announcement regarding the fact that a number of its previous generation chips had been found to be defective. The fast-spreading news had a serious impact on the company�...

16 July 2008
11:16 GMT

All Nvidia G84 and G86s Are Believed to Be Faulty

The reported faulty chips from NVIDIA, those that made the company lose serious credit and important Q2 revenue, have finally got a possible explanation. Things are heating up for the Santa Clara based company, as the "certain versions" of the previous NVIDIA notebook graphics cards said to be faulty seem to have a t...

11 July 2008
06:37 GMT

Nvidia Announced Faulty Chips, Stocks Going Down

This week seems to be rather a gray one for Nvidia, as the latest stock changes show that the company has received a powerful hit, and its stocks went down with about 25% when news about its defective graphics card began spreading around. The blow came after the company announced its investors that "significant quant...

3 July 2008
05:20 GMT


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