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AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer

Posted by kdawson on from the bumping-the-solder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a research report out of UCLA, released this morning, NVidia's high-lead bump packaging could last anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th as long as AMD's advanced eutectic bump approach. (TG Daily has picked up the claim.) NVidia is currently in the midst of a $200M recall of bad GPUs, and the report suggests that the issue could be much deeper than NVidia's PR department would have us believe." The report lends credence to the strident claims of the Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian, which we discussed a month back.

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  1. Sweet! by blueturffan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm all for longer life chips, but what are Grahiphics ?

    1. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know, but they sound terhiphic.

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    2. Re:Sweet! by josteos · · Score: 4, Funny

      Watching grammar nazis making fun of innocent mistakes just makes me sickick!

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    3. Re:Sweet! by atari2600 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Tooshay, my deer frend.

    4. Re:Sweet! by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      What I can't believe is that a companies PR department would knowingly release false or misleading information in an effort to keep their stock price up.

      It's unheard of.

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    5. Re:Sweet! by cp.tar · · Score: 2, Funny

      2. The word is not a misspelling as much as it is a thinko.

      So that's what it's called in English... I always called it lapsus cerebri.

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  2. Grahiphics :O by atari2600 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to Google for that word but then I realized that kdawson was involved.

  3. Re:Huh? by arizwebfoot · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey don't be takin my sig now or I'll have to Grahiphics ya!!

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  4. Re:More data please! by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Funny

    Solder? More like Duct Tape or it ain't worth saving.

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  5. It's obvious by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA:

    "£GDl/h' = 13.5/10. Clearly the strain in the eutectic SnPb layer (in the composite solder joint) is about one order of magnitude higher than that in the homogeneous eutectic SnPb solder joint."

    What fucking dipshits! I can't believe those morons at NVidia didn't realize this. Any judge is going to take one look at this in a class-action lawsuit, and NVidia is HISTORY, man!

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  6. Re:Old by Babbster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their writers intimately know people in the industry - from the people up top to the people at the factory floor.

    Isn't screwing one's sources against the journalistic ethic?

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  7. Not Good News! by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I'll have to seriously consider switching to unleaded.

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  8. I have one a bad nvidia, what do I do? by pizpot · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi, I have a laptop under warrenty with an nvidia 6200M GS. It might be crashing when it gets hot. Yesterday it locked up while I was playing war3 demo in wine, which I have done since ubuntu 5.10 without problem on another computer. When it is hot, sometimes I will see what looks like a mesh of fabric on the LCD. This fabric is grey with a black background.

    What do I say to Acer? Do I act dumb or say I know about the GPU's with low temperature soldier balls and they all will fail, and mine is going. ? Do I stand for them wanting me to ship 1000 km from Winnipeg to Toronto? Can't they just ship me another Aspire with 3GB, 250GB, intel core2duo 1.6 and a comparable speed GPU, and 15" LCD, dvd burner, camera, 5.1, stereo mics etc. ? I really just want a motherboard and I can install it myself, but know they won't like that.

    Help!

  9. They better by pablodiazgutierrez · · Score: 2, Funny

    After the dive AMD took today in the markets, they better be long lasting, because it's going to be hard to find replacements.

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  10. Re:in hindsight by superskippy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone familiar with Nvidia's hiring practices could've predicted a disaster of this magnitude. They have absolutely moronic screening quizzes (yes, quizzes)... canned technical questions with only one "right" answer. Throw original thinking out the window, they just want to hire drones to do their dirty work. You know what Nvidia, you get what you deserve. Maybe they had a majority of good employees at one time, but the way they treat their people, I imagine there's been alot of brain drain. It's a clear sign of a failing company when they rely on marketing & sales to hide shoddy engineering. You had agood run Nvidia, but the last stop is coming up. Get off while you can, the train derails up ahead.

    So you didn't get the job then?