Nvidia to clear out millions from GPU inventory

16 Apr, 2004 at 9:24pm ET Article published in Tech

It has been reported that Nvidia is offering discounts of 10%-20% to graphics card makers, with the goal of clearing out several million graphics processing units (GPUs) from inventory before the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2005, which ends April 30.

Among one of the preferential packages Nvidia is offering till the end of this month, the GeForce FX5200 will be bundled with the GeForce FX5700LE for just US$87, an approximate 10% off their combined normal prices.

Source: Digitimes

Comments

16 Apr 2004 ~ 11:36pm Leonardo

several million graphics processing units (GPUs)

That is some serious mismanagement - accumulating that much excess! That would put some companies out of business.

Well, I guess that's what they got when they underestimated ATI.
17 Apr 2004 ~ 2:40am qparadox So we should expect the price of leaf-blowers to decrease accordingly as Nvidia cards are substitute products ?
17 Apr 2004 ~ 10:32pm drasnor Is that just FX chips, or is now a good time to snag another GeForce 3 Ti500 or GeForce 4?

-drasnor