I don't know about the GPU, my impression was that it was competitive (the single-channel memory interface probably doesn't help), but otherwise that's spot on. It really seemed to be a design whose main goal was to have the most cores for marketing purposes.
And of course they launched on a process that was just about to become obsolete, and haven't been able to do a shrink. Not sure why, though. Complications with the companion core? Just NVidia's general inability to get 28nm to work?
(Commercially it didn't help that they were unable to get access to a competitive LTE modem. That meant there was no shot at the US phone market. But that's not particularly a failing of NVidia, everyone but Qualcomm has that problem.)
And of course they launched on a process that was just about to become obsolete, and haven't been able to do a shrink. Not sure why, though. Complications with the companion core? Just NVidia's general inability to get 28nm to work?
(Commercially it didn't help that they were unable to get access to a competitive LTE modem. That meant there was no shot at the US phone market. But that's not particularly a failing of NVidia, everyone but Qualcomm has that problem.)