The blame game
Later in the same press release, and seemingly in an effort to attribute at least some blame to one or more of its manufacturing partners (Ed. Remember the NV30 ‘Dust Buster’ and TSMC...), NVIDIA president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang admitted that:
“...the failure appears related to the combination of the interaction between the chip material set and system design, we have a responsibility to our customers and will take our part in resolving this problem.”
At the time of the press release NVIDIA seemed to believe that dealing with the inconvenience of ‘Connectorgate’ could cost “$150 million to $200 million against cost of revenue for the second quarter to cover anticipated warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs and expenses”.
If that belief was based on having to put right issues only with NVIDIA based notebooks, then how much will the cost scale if NVIDIA’s partners desktops need fixing too?...
Other HEXUS sauces have confirmed that NVIDIA is set to make an expanded official statement in the coming hours.
