Monday, March 16, 2009

Nvidia spent 40 million dollars for replacement of faulty graphic chips

The Manufacturer of video cards Nvidia, which the last financial year has ended on January, 25th, has spent for replacement of the rejected chips with weak isolation of 43,6 million US dollars. About it writes PC World. In total in July, 2008 Nvidia has reserved on additional guarantee cases and replacement of the rejected chips of 196 million dollars. Thus, not spent there are 78 percent of this sum. The part of failures Nvidia managed to be prevented. The company has let out a patch which forces to work more actively fans of laptops. It allows to cool more effectively a videosystem overheating in usual conditions. Nvidia not for the first time faces marriage in the chips. Last time on failures was informed by owners Apple MacBook Pro 17 "in the beginning of March. At them more powerful of two established videosystems overheated Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT.

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