NVIDIA faces AGP inventory problems

Posted on Wednesday, June 14 2006 @ 2:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

NVIDIA is having some capacity problems for some of its AGP cards as IBM decided to stop the production of a vital PCI Express to AGP bridge chip for NVIDIA.

NVIDIA is expected to find another foundry partner to produce bridge chips, but the analyst says a "supply chain disruption" is expected this summer as a result. NVIDIA's bridged AGP graphics cards include the GeForce 7800 GS and the AGP flavor of the GeForce 6600 GT.

More info at The Tech Report.

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