A week ago we reported that NVIDIA cannot fulfill the demand on the GeForce4 Ti4600, Ti4200 and GeForce4 MX440 chips with AGP 4x support. Apparently, the Santa Clara, California-based fabless semiconductor developer started to produce the GeForce4 MX with AGP 8x support instead of with AGP 4x. This caused a temporary shortage of the graphics chips, but everything should be on track soon. The lack of the GeForce4 Titanim processors was caused by the shift of the GeForce4 Ti4200 to AGP 8x specifications and end-of-life (EOL) for the GeForce4 Ti4600 GPUs.
Currently, GeForce4 Ti4600 based graphics cards cannot compete with ATI’s RADEON 9700 PRO powered solutions in terms of performance, and sometimes price-performance ratio as well. Moreover, in a couple of weeks NVIDIA announces the highly-anticipated NV30 VPU, and advanced users will wait for the newer graphics cards to come. As a result, they will not buy the GeForce4 Ti4600 now. Unfortunately for enthusiasts, our sources now indicate that NVIDIA will not be able to supply the NV30 shortly after the announcement at Comdex Fall, and their closest and most loyal partners have been told about it before. As a result, for example, Medion AG from Germany purchased 400 thousand of the GeForce4 Titanium GPUs, causing the tight supply for the rest of the companies and the prices on the GeForce4 Ti4200 and Ti4600 chips rose $11 and $19 respectively per chip.
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Nov 3, 2002, 08:44 PM
Nvidia kills the Ti4600 chip
