nvidia does not make wifi chip unless i am mistaken.

Cost. Unless there is a class-action lawsuit I sincerely doubt NVIDIA and the distributors selling their chips (Dell, Apple, etc.) would even humor the idea of doing such a thing.

NVIDIA already threw 2.2 billion of their own money into the “repair pot” to help lessen the burden of repairs for 3rd party providers, but no word yet on any one of them rolling out replacement programs.

Damn interesting followup, we surely appreciate you taking the time to post a clarification like this for readers that are running into this story for the first time.

I’ve amended the original story to link to your post for further clarification for users.

“We know that there are some failures that are associated with our chips. We know that its related to specific combinations of the chip, the deisgn of the notebook…depending on the design of the thermal solution…and all of the software that goes on top of it…sometimes it will fail. Most of the notebooks are fine…certain notebooks have this problem.”

Also:
Myth 1 – NVIDIA has denied responsibility for the failures and is blaming suppliers and partners.
In our announcements accept responsibility for the failures. We DO call out the material failure but we also acknowledge that our suppliers and notebook designs because this is true and we need to disclose this in our official statements to the SEC. We would not go on record with the SEC making such bold claims if they weren’t true. See our Form 8-K statement below.

Myth 2 – There is an “official story” that the problems were limited a batch of a few bad parts for HP.
We have never issued a stated this. See our public statements below.

Where is source for that?

Myth 3 – NVIDIA is forcing a fix on notebook makers
The idea that a supplier like NVIDIA can dictate a fix to the world’s largest PC makers is preposterous.

The truth isthe notebook makers determining their own course of action and we are supporting them.

Where is source for that?

Myth 4 – NVIDIA is trying to cuts our financial liability.
We put aside $200M to help partners solve this problem for consumers. As far as we know NVIDIA is the first and only chip maker to help fund the cost for repairs.

Myth 5 – This affects desktop chips, G92, G94, etc.
We have only seen this problem on notebooks. We just reiterated this during an official financial call. Once again we would not say this if it wasn’t true. Note we have not disclosed the specific GPUs but we have stated this impact previous generation GPUs and that current gen GPUs are not in production.

Fact
Charlie has an obvious bias against NVIDIA and he has no sources to back up his claims. Out of all of the hundreds upon hundreds of notebooks models designed with NVIDIA chips in the last few years, only a small number of these have experienced the problem. Within this small number of models, only a small percentage actually experiences the chip failure. It is highly unlike a notebook user will experience the problem. And we have never seen this problem on desktop.

Other Useful Information

“Separately, NVIDIA plans to take a one-time charge from $150 million to $200 million against cost of revenue for the second quarter to cover anticipated warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs and expenses, arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of its previous generation GPU and MCP products used in notebook systems. Certain notebook configurations with GPUs and MCPs manufactured with a certain die/packaging material set are failing in the field at higher than normal rates. To date, abnormal failure rates with systems other than certain notebook systems have not been seen. NVIDIA has initiated discussions with its supply chain regarding this material set issue and the Company will also seek to access insurance coverage for this matter. “

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