Nvidia expects millions of dollars less to convert than predicted due to the impact of the Thai floods on the gpu market. Also, the manufacturer indicates that the demand for Tegra 2 socs for tablets more quickly decreased than expected.
The fiscal fourth quarter of 2011 ends for Nvidia on 29 January, but the company indicates that the revenue is lower, it will extract than at the announcement of the results for the third quarter was predicted. The revenue would now 950 million dollars come true, less than the earlier prediction of 1,066 million dollars. Nvidia indicates that the impact of the floods in Thailand and the shortage of hard drives that this created, was greater than expected.
“Builders substantial reductions in their deliveries and the high prices of disk drives, meant that some companies chose no gpu in their systems to build,” reads the statement from Nvidia. Another reason for the lower expected sales is that manufacturers to reduce the Tegra 2 soc’s bought than Nvidia expected. This decrease could be related to the fact that the manufacturers focus on products with the Tegra 3-soc. Most of them should, in the first quarter of this year to go into production. Among other things, Asus already has a tablet with the Tegra 3 on the market, the Transformer Prime, and Acer has tablets with the chip will be announced.