Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Richard Cownie (tich.delete@this.pobox.com), August 6, 2010 6:18 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
a reader (a@b.c) on 8/6/10 wrote:
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>the problem is they had squandered too much money,
>e.g. on buying silly vc shops. the result is that they're
>unable to sustain the price war with amd.
There hasn't been a price war in graphics over the last
12 months: AMD has kept its prices very stable. They've
taken market share by having better products - DX11,
Eyefinity, quiet, low power, good price-performance -
not by cutting prices.
Now if there *were* a price war, it's true enough that
the lower cost of Evergreen vs Fermi derivatives would
handicap NVidia. But that's not what's happening yet.
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>the problem is they had squandered too much money,
>e.g. on buying silly vc shops. the result is that they're
>unable to sustain the price war with amd.
There hasn't been a price war in graphics over the last
12 months: AMD has kept its prices very stable. They've
taken market share by having better products - DX11,
Eyefinity, quiet, low power, good price-performance -
not by cutting prices.
Now if there *were* a price war, it's true enough that
the lower cost of Evergreen vs Fermi derivatives would
handicap NVidia. But that's not what's happening yet.