NVIDIA & TSMC Ship One-Billionth GeForce Graphics Processor

[Wreckage]

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/9837/

All I can say is..... wow! 😱

 

[Stoneburner]

Why i never hear about UMC any more?

 

[Rifter]

wow thats insane.

 

[videogames101]

As i'm not privy to sales of electronics companies, is that alot?

 

[Lonyo]

As i'm not privy to sales of electronics companies, is that alot?

It's cumulative since NV "invented" the GPU, so about 11.5 years total. It's a lot, but not a lot 😛

 

[thilanliyan]

I thought they have sold a billion just of G80 variants? 😛

 

[RussianSensation]

As i'm not privy to sales of electronics companies, is that alot?

Well there are 6.9 billion people on the planet. So 1 billion GPU sales is a lot considering prob. half the world can't afford a computer.

Public, NASDAQ:NVDA - Jan 29, 1999 --> Jan 13, 2011
Stock appreciation: + 1,324.92%

Public, NYSE:AMD - Jan 29, 1999 --> Jan 13, 2011
Stock appreciation: - 23.39%


So ya, NV did well selling some chips glued to a plastic board. 😎

 

[calvin0416]

Well there are 6.9 billion people on the planet. So 1 billion GPU sales is a lot considering prob. half the world can't afford a computer.

Public, NASDAQ:NVDA - Jan 29, 1999 --> Jan 13, 2011
Stock appreciation: + 1,324.92%

Public, NYSE:AMD - Jan 29, 1999 --> Jan 13, 2011
Stock appreciation: - 23.39%


So ya, NV did well selling some chips glued to a plastic board. 😎

Haha, now JJH can say 1 out of 7 people in the world uses NV product

 

[Creig]

Haha, now JJH can say 1 out of 7 people in the world uses NV product

Not really. I'm sure the vast majority of those one billion have long since become obsolete and have either been recycled or are sitting in a landfill somewhere.

 

[badb0y]

Nice!

 

[Powermoloch]

Dr Evil:

"Nvidia...give me 100 billion dollars worth of GPUs"

🙂

 

[Tsavo]

How many Nvidia GPUs have you owned?

7 or 8 myself.

 

[Lonyo]

How many Nvidia GPUs have you owned?

7 or 8 myself.

4 for me I think, and then another 1 or 2 in family systems.

 

[Red Storm]

Not really. I'm sure the vast majority of those one billion have long since become obsolete and have either been recycled or are sitting in a landfill somewhere.

Everytime I see stores still selling GeForce FX 5200 cards I die a little on the inside. D:

 

[JSt0rm]

How many Nvidia GPUs have you owned?

7 or 8 myself.

hmmm good question...

4 for myself.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

7 nVidia gpus, 6 Ati cards... And two Matrox cards 🙂

 

[Idontcare]

Why i never hear about UMC any more?

TSMC represents 100% of the profits ever made in the CMOS pure-play foundry industry (no joke)...every other foundry company in existance has accomplished nothing more than losing money when it comes to their financials.

 

[tviceman]

How many Nvidia GPUs have you owned?

7 or 8 myself.

2 3dfx cards and then I've been Nvidia ever since. Ti4200, 6600GT, 7800GTX, 8800GTS 320, 8800GTS 512, gtx260 216, and currently gtx465 and 9600m GT. So 8. In that same time span, I've owned 3 intel processors and 1 AMD processor.

 

[lavaheadache]

How many Nvidia GPUs have you owned?

7 or 8 myself.

between 25-30 for me. It gets fuzzy because of how many 7800 gt's I had.

 

[taltamir]

Why i never hear about UMC any more?

who? (i am serious! who?)

It's cumulative since NV "invented" the GPU, so about 11.5 years total. It's a lot, but not a lot 😛

i never got that claim... maybe they ascribe to the Columbus school of thought in this regards (you know, "discover" habituated lands, "invent" preexisting technology, etc)

Or maybe they mean that because they bought out 3dfx they have claim to it?

 

[lamedude]

GPU as defined by Nvidia "a single chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second." 3dfx never released a GPU and the Radeon DDR wouldn't come out for almost a year later.

 

[WelshBloke]

GPU as defined by Nvidia "a single chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second." ...

That seems pretty arbitrary.

 

[SlowSpyder]

That's a lot of silicon.

 

[Gloomy]

I just got my first Nvidia GPU a little while ago. I've have 4 ATi, and 6? Intel ones before this.

 

[IGemini]

Let's see...

Ti4200
MX4000
8800GT

Hmm, thought I had more nVidia than that. Nothing on the integrated end (yet). My ATI list is a bit longer.

7500M
X200
X300SE
X800XL
X1900XT
4850
5770