VisionTek dead....

[joeryu]

boy does things look good for ATi right now: 9700 looking to blow away everything and take performance crown, nvidia supposedly having delays with their nv30, visiontek, nvidia's biggest graphic card manufacturer goes down...

I see ATi gaining a LOT of market share withing the next few months as someone else mentioned.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Citadel535
This is odd though. Isn't VisionTek the biggest provider of the generic video cards used by Dell. Gateway, etc in their systems?

That means that the companies are now looking for bigger contract term sales. I would go with PNY if I were them. Maybe Crucial can enter the market Hehe

Gainward baby

 

[glugglug]

Diamond or Creative will pick up the extra demand I'm sure.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: glugglug
Diamond or Creative will pick up the extra demand I'm sure.

diamond?! who? they sold off their graphics division to s3, which pimped themselves to via. or at least that's what i thought happened.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Good ol' abit gf4....

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: Citadel535
This is odd though. Isn't VisionTek the biggest provider of the generic video cards used by Dell. Gateway, etc in their systems?

That means that the companies are now looking for bigger contract term sales. I would go with PNY if I were them. Maybe Crucial can enter the market Hehe

Gainward baby

<== Has owned 3 Gainward cards and is very happy with the price/performance of them. Still sucks about VisionTek though. I know friends who own their stuff and they made good cards too. Just have to wonder why this happens. Guess it's just another example of our modern economy.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: glugglug
Diamond or Creative will pick up the extra demand I'm sure.

Creative does not make Nvidia cards anymore. Now that they took over 3D Labs, they will be releasing cards on the P10, not Nvidia's chips.

From the HardOCP link..

Creative is gone for NVIDIA as well with the purchase of 3dLabs

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: spankyOO7

Originally posted by: Actaeon
Linky

that SUUUUUUUUX!!! now i can't rma my gf3 if it dies

Roger that! <--Owner of a plain-jane VisionTek GF3.

Well, if EVER there was a time for ATI to Carpe Diem, this is it...hopefully this time, not-ready-for-market hardware and substanard drivers won't hold them back.

But then again, a company (smart company...) like NVidia already knew about this impending collapse months ago and has enabled "Plan B" already.

 

[Leon]

With the LARGEST nVidia retail supplier gone, the current GF3/4MX/4 cards are also going to vanish from the market during the critical Christmas season

You are sadly misinformed. Visiontek was largest supplier in retail market, which accounts for 8% of Nvidia sales. PNY and others will pick up where Visiontek left off.
MSI and Asus both by far the largest suppliers of Nvidia cards for major OEMs.

As long as there is OEM demand for Nvidia cards, loss of one manufacturer means very little. Gigabyte customers switched to Leadtek and MSI when Gigabyte switched to ATI boards.

Leon

 

[tokamak]

i think where this has real implications is in the OEM market. if visiontek does indeed make cards for dell, gateway, etc., as someone suggested, then someones got a real problem on their hands. seems like ATi isnt real involved in the oem market, and it seems unlikely that anyone could ramp up production fast enough to churn out the mass quanitities of vid cards that the holiday oem season will require. i think i'm gonna look in the best buy ad the week before christmas and see a bunch of p4's with integrated video....

 

[styrafoam]

I guess there are several low end choices now, but the GTS-V was a great one for a while there.

 

[Biggs]

*sigh*

 

[Freejack2]

Enh, I don't think Nvidia is all that screwed. In this time of recession I'm willing to bet a lot of these nvidia card manufacturers only have 1 or 2 manufacturing shifts running. For most of them if they get a sudden surge in demand all they need to do is order some more parts and another half or full shift. Besides if they need employees the people from visiontek are for hire. :/

 

[ParagonX]

I have a VT Geforce 2. Works great.

To bad about VisionTek... hope nothing happens to my card now :\

 

[NOX]

Screw the cards! I feel sorry for the people that are losing their jobs? wonder if anyone from AT worked for VT?

 

[ToBeMe]

With the LARGEST nVidia retail supplier gone, the current GF3/4MX/4 cards are also going to vanish from the market during the critical Christmas season.

LOL! Yeah...........right..............

 

[Vegito]

hey so most of us got in on that amazon -50 -30 rebate deal for that gf4 4600.. are the quality of the card decent like wont fail after 2 years or should I just return it and get something else ? since there is no chance of getting the 30 rebate but amazon is doing the 50 rebate.

 

[Mamoose]

Question is: How did they run a company into the ground that manufactured a product that was unquestionably "king of the hill"?They were the major manufactuer of these increduiously successful video cards

WTF was up with that? Has corporate America taken a complete leave of their senses?Or just another example of corporate greed where the "suits"screw the investers and the loyal, hard working employees that depended on them to run the company in an effecient and honest fashion?:|

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: ToBeMe

With the LARGEST nVidia retail supplier gone, the current GF3/4MX/4 cards are also going to vanish from the market during the critical Christmas season.

LOL! Yeah...........right..............

All right, I'll bet you dollars-to-doughnuts that you'll see more Radeon 9000 cards in the next few months than you could shake a stick at, while nVidia cards start becoming harder to find until other OEM's like ACER can step up production to fill the gap.
Especially since the RV250 chip is so integrated... almost a whole video card on a single chip. (I'd like to see THAT imbedded on a motherboard! OEM's are lovin' this easy-to-produce card that's so inexpensive yet performs like a champ.)

nVidia will survive just fine, don't get me wrong. The stocks will slump a bit (good time to buy) and likely bounce back after the NV30 *IF* they can pull it off. With 10% yeilds, we'll see.

 

[Acanthus]

Visiontek sinking wont effect NVIDIA at all. Everyone remember Elsa? they used to be king of the hill til they went down in flames. Yet half of you probably went "wow i remember them" when you read Elsa.

I believe that Visiontek sinking isnt gonna hurt card supply, someone else will just pick up the slack.

MSI, Evga, Chaintech, PNY, Aopen, Albatron, Powercolor, Leadtek, Apollo, Gainward, Asus, Abit, and more are still supplying all the Geforce 4s we will ever need, and im sure wont argue about shipping more out because one OEM sank.

 

[kgraeme]

Originally posted by: Mamoose

Question is: How did they run a company into the ground that manufactured a product that was unquestionably "king of the hill"?They were the major manufactuer of these increduiously successful video cards

WTF was up with that? Has corporate America taken a complete leave of their senses?Or just another example of corporate greed where the "suits"screw the investers and the loyal, hard working employees that depended on them to run the company in an effecient and honest fashion?:|

Or is it another example of a U.S. company that can't compete with overseas production?

 

[glen]

All the articles have been pulled.

 

[kgraeme]

Originally posted by: glen
All the articles have been pulled.

Ha! I was wondering how long until that happened. They were unsubstantiated reports with a significant ability to damage a company.

 

[ToBeMe]

Originally posted by: bluemax

Originally posted by: ToBeMe

With the LARGEST nVidia retail supplier gone, the current GF3/4MX/4 cards are also going to vanish from the market during the critical Christmas season.

LOL! Yeah...........right..............

All right, I'll bet you dollars-to-doughnuts that you'll see more Radeon 9000 cards in the next few months than you could shake a stick at, while nVidia cards start becoming harder to find until other OEM's like ACER can step up production to fill the gap.
Especially since the RV250 chip is so integrated... almost a whole video card on a single chip. (I'd like to see THAT imbedded on a motherboard! OEM's are lovin' this easy-to-produce card that's so inexpensive yet performs like a champ.)

nVidia will survive just fine, don't get me wrong. The stocks will slump a bit (good time to buy) and likely bounce back after the NV30 *IF* they can pull it off. With 10% yeilds, we'll see.

Still want to bet on how many nVidia cards will disappear???????? Oh, and yeah.........I'll bet on the number of cards sold total...............

 

[miken]

Visiontek is the largest supplier of Nvidia cards in Noth America, not the world, that belongs to MSI. MSI also is the provider of Nvidia reference cards to Dell and Gateway. If MSI went down, the Nvidia would be in trouble, however now they just have to ramp production more, which isn't to hard to do with the perception of today's economy.