Fermi to Become Available “in Low Quantities” in March
The seemingly endless waiting for Fermi has almost sapped our patience, and just a sneak peek can never satisfy us. Fortunately, some details regarding its production and availability have surfaced.
According to the information that TomsHardware has learned from an NVIDIA partner, Fermi will go into production starting in the third week of February, and become available “in low quantities” starting in mid March.
According to the source, Fermi’s yield rate will be low, but expected to higher than Radeon HD 5800 yields, which hover around 4 percent. 4 Percent yield? It sounds crazy – last week AMD claimed it had already shipped two million of DirectX 11 GPUs.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Epic fail is epic.
January 12th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Yeah…Pretty sure it’s not 4%. Either their source is a joke, or they heard it incorrectly.
Remember that yields were ~40%, then went up to ~60%, and then dropped again to around 40% because of those re-tooling issues, or whatever it was. Of course, who knows, that may be an average including juniper, and perhaps redwood and cedar dies which are obviously likely to be higher yielding. But even then again, those supposedly were re-taped last quarter, so one would think not…but who knows what’s actually true.
OTOH, I have a hard time believing nVIDIA’s yields will be above what ATi’s are, considering the rumored 1.6x die size, unless they harvest ALL dies (448sp?). If ATi’s were 4% for Cypress, nVIDIA’s would likely be 2%, like Charlie mentioned back in the day for the first samples.
Like guy above me said though, Epic fail is indeed epically failed.
Who effing cares at this point? It’s late. It’s power connectors equal a 5970. AMD is launching a new part, probably at $400, that will be likely what 4890 was to GTX285, ie 90% of Fermi. 5870/5850 prices have room to go down for $/performance when it’s launched. ATi has mainstream parts also with room to settle in price, and nvidia has nothing but G92 to compare to even Redwood. That’s PATHETIC.
The saving grace for nVIDIA is 28nm, where it will probably fight N. Islands on even footing, ~300mm2. The funny thing is though, they may actually be in 2nd place performance-wise come that generation…
January 12th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Don’t expect to see Fermi in the next 6 months.
It’s pretty simple: it’s not going to be available.
nVidia, please, less “happy talking” and more “down to earth”, presenting the market with REAL products. Stop dreaming!
It’s incredible: by the time nVidia actually launches Fermi, ATi will be releasing its new generation card, which will be better than Fermi.
ATi has left nVidia behind.
One last comment: no, yields are not 4%. It wouldn’t be to much to say that they’re having 100% profit on each card they sell.
Have you all an “epic” day!
Cheers!
January 13th, 2010 at 8:59 am
“The seemingly endless waiting for Fermi has almost sapped our patience”
Have you folks forgot how later R600 was, or were you born after that?
R600 was originally supposed to debut in Sept 2006 — two months before G80 — but instead it didn’t arrive until May 2007, 8 months later. I can’t imagine how much patience ATI sapped from you folks before. This situation with nVidia is no different and in my mind, no big deal seeing how ATI came back with a vengence; nVidia will too.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
This isn’t 2006, stop bringing past eras…. And to repeat a many months delay like your main competitor is stupid, very stupid.
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