Rivastation heeft een preview rond de GeForce 2 GTS in elkaar geknutseld. Op zich hebben we al 10.000 van dergelijke artikelen gezien, echter Rivastation maakt het extra interessant dankzij een interview met Alain Tiquet, nVidia's marketing director voor Europa. Monsier Tiquet weet ondermeer te vertellen dat nVidia absoluut geen plannen heeft om zelf videokaarten te produceren:
RS: The design of the NV10/11/15 reference boards has been worked out by Creative. Does NVIDIA have any plans to also take over a card producer (board vendor) like it was done by S3 or 3Dfx?AT: The design of the reference boards are done by NVIDIA, anyone can manufacture them for us as far as quality of manufacturing, fast turn around and cost are OK. They are more than 15 board manufacturers offering NVIDIA based boards on the market place. This means a very strong dynamic in terms of cost, features and availability for the end users. No one has such a product synergy. The NVIDIA expertise is the design of 3D graphics chips, and we concentrate on it. Chip manufacturing is handled by TMSC and Wafertech, board manufacturing and channels are managed by more than 15 experts in these domains. I do not feel we can improve by moving to single source of board products.
Verder denkt nVidia dat T&L nu eindelijk aan gaat slaan bij game developers, mede vanwege het feit dat vriendjes ATi en S3 videochips met onboard T&L hebben gereleased.
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