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The fiasco was widely called "Bad Bumps" due to the issue being related to the solder used for the bumps on the underside of their chips. It was a huge deal af
by giobox 9y ago
The fiasco was widely called "Bad Bumps" due to the issue being related to the solder used for the bumps on the underside of their chips.
It was a huge deal affecting major computer vendors like Apple, Dell, HP etc at the time, with failure rates on laptops with these chips being ridiculously high. I've also long wondered if this played a part in whatever reason Apple have for avoiding Nvidia GPUs for so long.
> https://semiaccurate.com/2010/07/11/why-nvidias-chips-are-defective/ https://semiaccurate.com/2010/07/11/why-nvidias-chips-are-de...
> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/NVIDIA-GPU-Chipset-Graphics,6512.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/NVIDIA-GPU-Chipset-Graphics...
Not usually a huge fan of theinquirer's tabloid style, but they did a pretty good job reporting on the issue back then.
> https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1047022/apple-notebooks-defective-nvidia-chips https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1047022/apple-note...