I believe the payment schedule is for the year beginning with the date in question. i.e. January 2011 is the date of the first payment, but the payments are spread over the four quarters of the year (I certainly don't remember Nvidia getting a $300m or $200m lump sum in Q1 of any of the payment years.
Well, they certainly got a little bit of my money that quarter on a minor upgrade. Once I get my 4K TV next year then they will get all of my money when I buy a high-end game card again.
Nvidia looks like it has a pole position to catch the greatest upcoming opportunity in technology. And that opportunity is VR. Graphics processing and the most efficient graphics processing will be all the rage in decades to come.
VR is still an unknown technology. Can it meet all of its promises, have enough must-have content and overcome all of the negatives of the headsets? I am not expecting that it can.
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Wreckage - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link
The PC market is doing just fine. Can't wait for PascalHollyDOL - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
Awaiting that myself as well, still running on Fermi+2500K. Guess it will be a big upgrade together with Kaby Lake.Keermalec - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link
Final Intel payment will be in January 2017, not 2016.Val Paladin - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link
True enough. The payment schedule did not start until April 2011, so will conclude March 2017. Last payment Q1 2017 http://i.imgur.com/pxR2awA.jpg - from the PDF ( http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-1XAJD4... )Brett Howse - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link
According to this from Intel: http://download.intel.com/pressroom/legal/Intel_Nv...The payment schedule has the final payment from Intel to NVIDIA as of January 15, 2016, so I'll see if I can find an definitive answer.
Val Paladin - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link
I believe the payment schedule is for the year beginning with the date in question. i.e. January 2011 is the date of the first payment, but the payments are spread over the four quarters of the year (I certainly don't remember Nvidia getting a $300m or $200m lump sum in Q1 of any of the payment years.HighTech4US - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
Intel has always paid in lump sums once a year.Nvidia breaks up the payment into quarterly amounts for accounting purposes.
Val Paladin - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
If that is the case then Nvidia's financials will continue to record the $66m as revenue for the next four quarters.CaedenV - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link
Well, they certainly got a little bit of my money that quarter on a minor upgrade. Once I get my 4K TV next year then they will get all of my money when I buy a high-end game card again.darkich - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
Nvidia looks like it has a pole position to catch the greatest upcoming opportunity in technology.And that opportunity is VR.
Graphics processing and the most efficient graphics processing will be all the rage in decades to come.
johnpombrio - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
VR is still an unknown technology. Can it meet all of its promises, have enough must-have content and overcome all of the negatives of the headsets? I am not expecting that it can.darkich - Friday, February 19, 2016 - link
It is only a matter of timeSenti - Friday, February 19, 2016 - link
If you want to sell your soul to the green side with all the proprietary technology they'll surely "invent" for VR, sure you can be excited.just4U - Sunday, February 21, 2016 - link
"Much of the growth of NVIDIA was due to their recent successes with GPUs for gaming.."---
I don't really understand that. Aside from Titan/980Ti.. Amd (in my opinion) has better cards that are also cheaper. Peception is key I guess..