How is this the right way?
Just adding more and more chips is no way to advance technology. It's a short cut to more performance. Anyone can add 2 chips of their best "large, very high-performance chips" onto a pcb. And it's actually a bit of a scam. Because it makes many people think their going to get double the performance because it has 2 chips. When in reality it's only going to be a roughly 10-25% performance increase over the single chip version.
AMD/ATI and Nvidia do the same things. It's only that Nvidia has a little better architectures and likes to over price their products because of that.
While ATI lowers their price as much as they can, because they know their cards aren't quite as good as Nvidia's. So it makes ATI look like they design for the mainstream, when in reality the only thing they do different is price it lower so they can actually sell their cards.
This is obviously a stab at Nvidia's upcoming GT200 chip that is a bigger chip size than usual. But if Nvidia wanted, they could put 2 GT200's on a single card and be doing the same thing as ATI lol. (Which they already did with the 9800GX2)
Glad this story shows views from both sides tho. Would of liked to hear Nvidia talk more on the issue, tho they made good points.
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