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Nvidia working to cut GeForce GTX 260 production costs - TechAmok
Nvidia working to cut GeForce GTX 260 production costs - [technology] 06:18 PM EST - Feb,09 2009 - post a comment According to
Expreview, Nvidia is hard at work streamlining its design to keep costs
down. The Chinese site says the original GTX 260 Reloaded used a P654 reference
design with 14 circuit board layers, an "expensive Volterra chip," and a 65nm
graphics processor. The latest design includes the new 55nm GT200b GPU, 10 PCB
layers, and no Volterra chip. Expreview claims Nvidia is now prepping a third
design refresh - code-named P897 - that will introduce several extra
cost-cutting measures: "According to the P897 design plan that NVIDIA sends
its partners, it uses 4/6 phase NVVDD power solution ADP4100. It changes FBVDDQ
power solution from 2-phase to single phase. And the MOSFET package has been
changed from LFPAK to DPAK to save cost. Another noticeable change is the PCB
layer decreases from 10 to 8. The length of PCB keeps unchanged, while the
height of it is reduced by 1.5cm. In order to cut cost further, they will change
DVI connector, crystal and probably change BIOS Rom from 1M to 512K. " These
modifications will supposedly trim costs by "$10 to $15," which could allow
Nvidia to undercut AMD-if it decides to pass on the savings on to consumers,
that is. You can start trying to hunt down P897-based GeForce GTX 260 cards in
the third week of this month, if Expreview has its facts straight. |
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