Monday, March 16, 2009

Nvidia has spent 40 million dollars for the replacement of marriage.

Manufacturer of Nvidia graphics cards in the past fiscal year ended January 25, spent for the replacement of defective chips with weak insulation 43,6 million U.S. dollars. This says PC World.
Total in July 2008, Nvidia has reserved for additional warranty cases, and replacement of defective chips 196 million dollars. Thus, the unspent remain 78 per cent of this amount.
Part Nvidia was able to prevent failures. The company has released a patch that causes fans to build notebooks. This allows more efficient cooling video overheated in normal conditions.
Nvidia is not the first time is faced with marriage in their chips. The last time the crash told the owners of Apple MacBook Pro 17''at the beginning of March. They overheated Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT, more powerful of the two installed video systems.

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