At the quarterly conference, NVIDIA representatives spoke about the situation with the release level of suitable 40 nm chips as a whole, and fermi products in particular.
According to NVIDIA representatives , critical moment in the release level of suitable 40 nm chips began during December last year. Let us note that this can be judged at least from a improvement in the situation with video card accessibility series radeon HD 58xx - until December they also remained in scarcity. Now all TSMC difficulties with 40 nm technical process are behind, release level of suitable GF100 chips proved to be above expected by NVIDIA . The first quarter company as a result finished with the increased reserves of video chip GF100.
The problem according to NVIDIA chapter , consists in the limitedness of TSMC production capacities , oriented to 40 nm product. A higher number of TSMC clients orders 40 nm microcircuit. As a result the proposal of 40 nm video chip is lower than the demand, which is strengthened by the postponed purchases. According to the forecasts of NVIDIA leader , the company for a while will experience the scarcity of 40 nm chips.
The head of company also gave to understand that priority for NVIDIA is now the return to the segment of productive graphical solutions. Video cards series GeForce GTX 4xx are already bought, they bring a good profit, with their aid NVIDIA expects to recapture positions in the not lost market segment.