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What did nvidia do?

• deleted 7y ago
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• jdietrich 7y ago
  There was a lawsuit and a recall program because of the premature failure of Nvidia GPUs in 2008 to 2010 MBPs. https://www.macworld.com/article/1154456/nvidiagpu-macbookpro.html https://www.macworld.com/article/1154456/nvidiagpu-macbookpr...
• giobox 7y ago
  They screwed over much of the laptop industry in the late 2000s. Google "Nvidia bad bumps fiasco" or "Nvidia bumpgate". This left the major computer vendors (Dell/HP/Apple etc) with very large bills due to the high failure rate of these Nvidia GPUs in laptops. It was right after this that Apple stopped using Nvidia, I've always assumed bad blood over this was a major factor. The cost to Nvidia ended up in the hundreds of millions (based on charges one can see in quarterly filings from this time), the total cost of the failures industry wide is pretty hard to establish given laptop manufacturers weren't exactly in a rush to let customers know the extent of the issues...