NV already stated founders edition cards will be availible for the life of the product,
its simply a marketing name to sell beefed up cards.

599 for referencee, 699 for FE. AIB Partners will be somewhere in between.

My GP100 Prices are accurate, the cost of 16nm Wafers vs how many fully functional or even 75% functional dies they get is the reason the cost is higher.

Id say the same thing about AMD, except they are wasting wafers on 610mm^2 Dies for GP100, and around est. 510mm^2 for "GP 102", which likely just a laser cut GP100 chip, thats being sold with defective parts disabled.

Their top Polaris Die is 232mm^2, so on any given wafer they are producing more than 4x the volume with higher yeilds due to wafer defects not hitting as many dies due to size of the dies.

Vega 10 will likely be about 350-400mm^2 at most.



As for nVidia not shooting themselves in the foot over pricing, erm, yeah, they havent been doing that?