Nvidia’s Latest High-End Board Hits Stores Ahead of Schedule

Nvidia Corp.’s latest high-end offering, GeForce 8800 Ultra, has become available in Japan and the USA, about a week ahead of the original schedule. Availability ahead of the planned date may indicate that Nvidia’s partners have no problems with receiving high-speed components and the new “Ultra” will be broadly available.

Despite of new chip revision some observers were not sure whether Nvidia will manage to supply the GeForce 8800 Ultra in sufficient quantities due to low availability of GDDR3 memory capable of working at above 2.0GHz clock-speeds. Nevertheless, early availability may be an indicator that the product will be available in commercial quantities and without supply constraints, something which happened to Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 product one and a half years ago.
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