nVidia problems

[Karl Larsen]

Jeffrey D. Greenly wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 12:55 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> As some of you know there is a corporation called nVidia that is 
>> traded and it is going down in price. This is because a number of people 
>> have brought a Class Action Suit against them. It alleges that nVidia 
>> lied about how easy it is to use their product. It was at above $35 a 
>> share and today it is $10.
>>
>>     I had trouble with their chip and still do. But it appears to be a 
>> poor cooling devise that causes my problem. But we still hear people on 
>> this list who, when we can get them to tell us, are having a nVidia problem.
>>
>> Karl
>>
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>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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> Hey, Karl...
>
> Actually, if I'm not mistaken, they had serious QC issues and a huge
> number of chips were found to be defective; instead of taking that loss,
> they decided to feed these defective chips back into the channel. I read
> about it on Slashdot a while back, but don't have time to go back and
> pull the reference.
>
> 73's
>
> Jeff KD6HUL
>
>
>   
    That could be the problem. It seems those hurt were in The Northern 
CA area, as if they got the most bad chips.

Karl
 

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