Nvidia’s failing GPU’s

Nvidia may have a long 2008 fiscal year if they don’t get their act together with these G84/G86/G92/G94 chip failures.  The Inquirerreports that the problem spans with all laptops with these chips from HP, Dell, Apple, Asus, and Lenovo.  Dell has been reportedly sending full replacement laptops to customers with these arising issues still under warranty.  Nvidia has been light with press releases regarding the issue.  Either they’re trying to soften the public blow to their image or more likely, they don’t know what the problem is yet or how to correct it.  Do you think Dell, HP, etc. will be stuck with the bill of these costly warranty exchanges?  I think not.  So on top of scrambling their engineering department to figure out this mess, they will have to cover at least most of these costs to the OEM and laptop manufacturers.  If and when the issue rolls into the desktop market, look out.  ATI, AMD now has one of the biggest opportunities in the past decade to gain market share.  I’m not more for one or the other, but they both need to stay in this business to keep competition up and costs down for the consumers sake.