TheInq claims NVIDIA chipsets defective

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Nvidia chipsets are defective too

For those of you who pay attention to such things, lately TheInq has been claiming that NVIDIA products are defective. It started with the whole notebook thing, which turned into "all" notebooks containing NVIDIA GPUs, which turned into "all" NVIDIA GPUs including desktop variants. Now they're starting to claim NVIDIA motherboard chipsets are defective.

From the article:

LOOKS LIKE THOSE wacky folk at Nvidia are at it again, changing perfectly good chipsets for no reason...

Luckily, the firm seems to be spending money like there is no tomorrow, it has nothing to do with the fact that they have a few warehouses full of defective chips, they seem to want to keep their validation engineers fully employed this time of year for no apparent reason. This time, the chipsets being changed are being changed 'just because', and the bump material has nothing to do with crapping out. Really...

This little ditty is called "MCP73 Products Change Bump Material from High Pb Solder to Eutectic Solder""

TheInq seems to draw a conclusion from a product change notification to mean that the product (prior to change) was defective, because as they see it the only reason to change a product is to fix problems and the only problem that NVIDIA ever has is because their products are all defective. :roll:

Sure, NVIDIA products aren't all perfect, but the "change bump material" is pretty benign.

Eutectic solder just means the solder "goes directly from solid to liquid without a pasty stage." However, the most important fact may be missed by most because it uses only two letters. "High Pb solder." Pb is the symbol for lead. A manufacturer needs to stop using lead for their product to be RoHS compliant. Duh!

Guess my imagination just isn't up to creating outrageous stories from thin air. No wonder I didn't make it as a tabloid journalist.

BTW what's up with the Wikipedia article for Lead? The first section starts out...

Lead (pronounced /'l?d/) is a main group element with a symbol Pb (Latin: plumbum). Lead has the atomic number 82. and oscar loves fruit loaf in kent

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Ahhh, the wonders of allowing anyone to edit articles...

 

[Zstream]

More tin whiskers a brewing...

 

[Andrew1990]

I hate lead free solder. Takes to much heat for my liking. I have burnt myself many times on it at work. Give me good old lead any day, even if it does lead to lung disease, lol.

 

[taltamir]

eh.... wikipedia for my home town says my 15 year old brother is the mayor (one of his friends did that)... then there is also the one with the zombie mayor (those guys love mayors)... wiki generally sucks for things that aren't basic obvious facts. Sure it gives you pb = lead. But good luck finding something reliable about history or geography or a famous person.

Good laugh at the inq though.

 

[Blazer7]

Originally posted by: taltamir

Good laugh at the inq though.

Yes you?re probably right. The Inq has a rep for creating fud.

I wonder tho. If I was nV and somebody like the Inq was spreading false rumors about me, trashing my rep and hurting my business, I would be looking for the heaviest hammer there is and test it on their heads. I haven?t heard of nV doing anything like this and Huang isn?t exactly the guy to take on unless you are dead right or suicidal.

 

[CKTurbo128]

LOL, Charlie@Inquirer and his anti-nVIDIA tantrums. It's one of the reasons why I never visit the Inquirer anymore.

He's just still mad at nVIDIA for them blacklisting the Inquirer a while back.