NVIDIA tells SEC GPU failures are limited to only a few laptops, not entire line

Contrary to previous rumors popularized by The Inquirer, Nvidia is passionately denying that all their G84 and G86 chips are bad: they are still claiming that the defect only affects an incredibly small number of laptop graphic chips, and have even gone as far as to swear as much to the SEC.

So is Nvidia lying? Probably not, says Ars:

[T]hus far, NVIDIA has done everything right. The company has admitted the existence of a problem to both customers and the SEC, pledged a substantial amount of money to deal with the issue, offered a temporary software solution that might prevent some product failures (even if it amounts to turning up the fan), and has repeatedly stated that it will fix the problem. Furthermore, the company is on record that the issue is confined to certain notebook configurations and did not effect desktop parts at all.
Could NVIDIA be lying? Yes, it could, but there's no concrete evidence to support such a conclusion. The plural of anecdote, however compelling, is not data, and the very nature of conspiracy theories make them exceptionally hard to prove.

Nvidia denies rumors of mass GPU failutres [Ars Technica]

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#1 posted by Anonymous , November 21, 2008 12:07 AM

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