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It's not about DX11, it's about that precious performance crown and also about the 2009 launch that they insisted on. It will still happen on paper though, I'm sure.
As for Charlie, he's been right about it so far. You just need to look at the information he's presenting and ignore the negative writing style 
Well, sure TSMC's yields are terrible and volume's, but other 40nm products are out. That they had to go for A2 silicon means it's nV's fault, they needed to fix something. It's a common occurance, so nothing really wrong with that, other than all the hype that lead up to A1, so really c'mon, this is also nV's doing, as well as simply a bad production run. But the difference is, like I mention in the other thread, that TSMC just makes everyone else's mistakes more costly.
It's like speeding; it doesn't cause accidents in a well kept car (or bike in your case) with a good driver, but whenever something does go wrong, that speed makes the potential result much worse.
Let's just hope A2 is production ready and there's no A3.
I'd also hope that there wasn't more PR BS, but I know that this is only the beginning of the next round. 
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The need to go to A2 was always a bit of a given anyway despite TSMC's probs and the (real not PR BS) timeframe for a working prototype/reviewers card was end of Q4 at the earliest IIRC, so for me he's just going over old ground trying to make it sound worse than it is (at the moment at least 
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| y eye wrote : there is no it. so eye guess you question is mute |
I'm not sure if you're deliberately misspelling that word or if it's just because English isn't your first language, as I've seen you use the word before, but the word is "I" not "eye" when referring to yourself. An "eye" is what is in your head so you can see. 
Fermé = Closed.
For F**ks sake people.. It is named after Enrico Fermi, it is a name, not a word. Makes sense as it is a scientific computing part.. take more science classes 
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| daedalus685 wrote : For F**ks sake people.. It is named after Enrico Fermi, it is a name, not a word. Makes sense as it is a scientific computing part.. take more science classes |
Why, this is shocking news!!!
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| daedalus685 wrote : For F**ks sake people.. It is named after Enrico Fermi, it is a name, not a word. Makes sense as it is a scientific computing part.. take more science classes |
I and others know this and have pointed it out to witcherx who still persists in posting an incorrect statement despite that. Some people eh?
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