[ltp] Massive nVidia GPU failure rate in the field, but no recall

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008, Laurent Gilson wrote:
> The main source behind the articles (Charlie Demerjian) is a Nvidia
> hater. He has attacked Nvidia nonstop in the last 4 years. He almost
> always misseg the point.

The first article I linked is from The EE Times.  The Enquirer might just be
crap, but The EE Times isn't.

Actually, something like that showing up in EE Times is enough to cause a
big drop in share prices by itself.  Were it a hoax, nVidia would be suing
the pants off The EE Times by the end of the day.

But that's beside the point.  I *already* don't touch anything by nVidia
since it is either utter crap full of silicon bugs (the chipsets), or
undocumented hardware (GPUs) that won't ever see any of my hard-earned money
OR waste my even more valuable free time I like to use writing thinkpad-acpi
and doing Debian work.

What I find most interesting is how the Vendors are dealing with the issue.
It is very enlightening, and I do want to know how Lenovo will deal with it.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh