ClaimsJensen Huang

“Available Q4 2012”

NVIDIA keynote slide (Jensen Huang, CEO) May 2012 GTC 2012 Jen-Hsun Huang Keynote (SlideShare)

Promise Their own work or organisation

NVIDIA will make the Tesla K20 available in Q4 2012.

Delivered on time The record shows it happened or was so.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

TRUE: the Tesla K20 (including the K20/K20X variants) was generally available between 1 October and 31 December 2012, meaning it was shipping to customers or OEMs or could be ordered for delivery. Availability earlier in 2012 also counts. MOSTLY TRUE: shipments in Q4 2012 went only to select customers or supercomputer installations (e.g. Titan), with broad availability shortly following. MOSTLY FALSE: the K20 first became available after 31 December 2012, however soon after. FALSE: it was delayed well into 2013 or later, or cancelled.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 NVIDIA Unveils World's Fastest, Most Efficient Accelerators, Powers World's No. 1 Supercomputer NVIDIA · 12 November 2012 Own record

    “The NVIDIA Tesla K20 family of GPU accelerators is shipping today and available for order from leading server manufacturers, including Appro, ASUS, Cray, Eurotech, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Quanta Computer, SGI, Supermicro, T-Platforms and Tyan, as well as from NVIDIA reseller partners.”
  2. E2 NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X GPU accelerators officialy released Hexus · 13 November 2012

    “Today, NVIDIA has at last officially announced its two new GK110 Tesla cards, the Tesla K20X and Tesla K20 and, it's now possible to purchase systems based on these units from OEMs and resellers.”
  3. E3 Nvidia Tesla K20 mit GK110-GPU im Endkundenhandel ComputerBase · 27 November 2012

    “Verfügbar ist die Karte des Nvidia-Partners PNY zwar noch nicht, sie wird jedoch von einigen wenigen Händlern bereits gelistet”
  4. E4 Final Specification of Tesla K20 with Kepler GK110 GPU VideoCardz · 17 October 2012

    “Tesla K20 should be available worldwide in about a month. First units were already sent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.”

Reasoning

NVIDIA's 12 November 2012 announcement said the Tesla K20 family was shipping that day and could be ordered from a list of server makers and resellers (E1). Hexus, which is independent of NVIDIA, reported on 13 November 2012 that systems based on the K20 and K20X could be bought from OEMs and resellers (E2). An earlier report said the first units had already gone to Oak Ridge (E4). ComputerBase (E3) said PNY's retail card was not yet in stock in late November, though a few shops already listed it; that does not change the finding, because under the criteria shipping to OEMs or being available to order in Q4 2012 is enough for "true".

Cite this claim

Jensen Huang, “NVIDIA will make the Tesla K20 available in Q4 2012.” (said May 2012). Verdict: delivered on time. Reliability API, claim c_974bee0f6d25, method 0.1.0+03d23c0e, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_974bee0f6d25

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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