Friday, August 1st 2008
Goodbye NVIDIA nForce?
If the report from Taiwanese industry observer DigiTimes holds ground, NVIDIA could be wrapping up its chipset division. This was revealed by sources at top motherboard manufacturers who have attended a meeting with NVIDIA where the company sought support from them to continue the chipset business. The manufacturers didn't show obvious or in other words, positive support.
Here's how the exit of nForce could affect the industry and you :
Update: NVIDIA has responded to the DigiTimes article saying that they are not leaving the chipset business and have no intention of doing so.source
Source:
DigiTimes
Here's how the exit of nForce could affect the industry and you :
- It will debunk any recent speculation that Apple will be adopting Nvidia chipsets for its upcoming notebook products
- You could be using the same motherboard for multi-GPU configurations across both ATI and NVIDIA hardware
- The subtraction of the BR-04 chip on X58 motherboards could still fetch SLI given that some manufacturers hint that they wouldn't bother using it, forcing NVIDIA to "give it away", meaning use it directly on the platform
Update: NVIDIA has responded to the DigiTimes article saying that they are not leaving the chipset business and have no intention of doing so.source
63 Comments on Goodbye NVIDIA nForce?
so this means the only solution is some form of sli on the graphics card itself instead of the motherboard
i wonder how ali will be done and this means we will have to suffer ati/amd and via chipsets motherboards only if we go amd cpu
Nvidia purposely doesn't allow sli on anything other than their chipsets. Finally it's going to bite them in the ass (maybe lol)
So,if nvidia gives sli license to intel, we wont be forced to buy a nforce board for sli.
If nvidia dosen't give the sli lisence to intel,it wont get the nehalem lisence.
i think nvidia will go with the fist choice which means,by by nforce.
NVidia is doing pretty well with their chipset sales, why would they go out of business.
Crap posting from that website.
And Nvidia has already called it groundless and debunked it.
but here is what NV had to say, just like i posted earlyer.
Updated - A response from NVIDIA's Bryan del Rizzo:
The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.
In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:
Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.
SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.
nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. . . .
We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms
For me, there are still unanswered questions. I guess only time will reveal all. email sent to avoid de-railing thread.
if nvidia dont release the sli license they wont be around for long and that is bad for everyone especially us the clients.i believe that intel has (for now) the best overall chipsets, the highest ocs are performed on intel chips.after all we wouldnt have to change mobos for CF or SLI wouldnt that be great and CHEAP.:toast: