The second financial years 2008 quarter was extremely unpleasant for NVIDIA investors . With the income of 892,7 billion dollars (935,3 billion a year earlier) the company declared about the clean losses in size of 120,9 billion , this is the first loss in past five years.
Imbalance of productivity / price and the cost Of GeForce GTX 260 and 280 forced NVIDIA to reduce the prices of these of video accelerator after only one month . Furthermore, for competition with Radeon HD 4850 , different GeForce 9800 models was reduced in prices.
Moreover, problems with the design of mobile accelerators also delivered influential impact . NVIDIA promise to rapidly restore the lost positions .