NVIDIA Delays New 40nm Chips

NVIDIA had slated its new 40nm GPUs to ship this spring, but the line won't be available until the third quarter and its flagship chip, the GT212, may be canceled entirely.

What's extremely worrying isn't the delay itself so much as the rumored reasons behind it: the same quality issues and parts failures that plagued both the GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs. This makes three successive generations of faulty NVIDIA products, which is downright shameful and undoubtedly contributes to NVIDIA's estimated 50% quarterly revenue drop.

In the past, NVIDIA has continued to ship faulty products to clear out inventory, even when an improved product has been in production, despite failure rates that begin in the teens. As it stands, even though I've been exclusively an NVIDIA customer since they bought out 3DFX, it looks like it's time to jump ship. Brand loyalty shouldn't survive three generations of failure.

NVIDIA delaying next-gen 40nm graphics chips? [Electronista]