Nvidia hit with lawsuit over bad graphics chips
A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public."
$196M should cover costs of bad graphics chips, Nvidia says
Nvidia took a one-time warranty charge of $196 million against its second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, saying that amount should cover the cost of replacing bad Nvidia graphics chips used in a range of laptop models from different manufacturers. Chairman and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stopped short of ruling out additional charges related to this problem in the future, but said Nvidia was not obligated to replace the bad graphics chips.
AMD aims high-end graphics cards at Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday unveiled a graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, that is widely expected to outperform rival Nvidia's top-end graphics card, the GeForce GTX 280.
Intel keeps number of Larrabee cores under wraps
Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip at the SIGGRAPH conference on Aug. 12, but the company will keep one important aspect of the chip under wraps: the number of cores it will have.
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