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kevingreenbmx

good find.

It seems silly to say that nvidia is abandoning gamers... they are just opening up to more than just gamers. Video cards are the processing power of the future, that is becoming more and more clear.

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Nvidia is turning the GPU into another type of CPU. This processing power is not really geared towards gaming performance. It is just a more specialized CPU from what I see.

MagicBox

In fact, there's nothing "Graphical" about it any more, other than the small bit of display driver logic that controls the RAMDAC on the card. PPU would be a better term, though not to be confused with "physics processing unit". No, instead, Parallel Processing Unit.

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I've actually been saying this for a while... Fermi was announced as a Tesla (HPC) card first, unlike the G80. This to me screams that their main focus is on GPGPU and HPC. I think you'd have to be blind not to see it. That being said I completely understand why Nvidia are doing this, because they know thats where the money is in the future.

Jen-Hsun Huang says his company doesn't ever have a plan B, but they're clearly shifting their focus from the consumer market of electronics to the HPC and Workstation because they know that without their own x86 chip they aren't going to survive there.

Now, they may still get an x86 chip, you never know, but I'd wager that shifting toward HPC is incase they don't end up managing to get a license.

Not only that though... but as Jen-Hsun said himself, 2/3 of their revenue comes from geforce, but 2/3 of their profit comes from quadro. Why bother with gamers if your other lines are making so much more money?

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brooze113

I saw this coming. I will just watch and see what fermi is all about

greenPlastic

2/3+2/3 = ... More than 1?

Haha, they make 130%

0m3g4

there is a difference between revenue and profit.

back to the topic at hand, I didn't see nvidia as being a viable company if all they had were graphics chips, they have to diversify in order to maintain.

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zootielolo

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Step 2) Sell something, hopefully for more money than it costs to produce
Step 3) Count up that money
Step 4) Revenue-costs=profit

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Yet another signal of AMD's fear.