nVidia Strikes Deal With Apple

Stefan MacGeek writes: "Nvidia, the manufacturer for 3D graphics chips has closed an OEM deal with Apple. Future Macs will use Nvidia graphics chips. Nvidia has recently presented the GeForce 2 MX, their first chip suitable for use in Macs. It is not yet known if Nvidia will take over as Apple's main supplier of graphics chips from ATI. Source: The German computer news site Heise " Here's a link to the story itself, und wenn Sie Deutsch nicht können, continue your scavenger hunt at Babelfish. This sounds great for Macs and their users. One thing to keep in mind though: the article cautions that it's unclear whether nVidia chips will be installed as full-fledged video cards, or integrated as in previous Macintosh models. [Updated 8 July 3:00GMT by timothy] An alert Bethor points to this MacCentral story in which Nvidia denies the whole thing, claiming that such news is at least months in the future.

Comments

Re:This confirms Xbox!= game box, Xbox=Imac killer

[Valdrax]

Of course they're just babbling about games. As megalomaniacal as MS can get sometimes, even they know they couldn't really get away with becoming a full-fledged PC vendor too during the DOJ trial. Just wait until X-Box comes out. We'll see keyboard and mouse peripherals and non-game software following in no time.

Here's the proof

[DrTomorrow]

Go to www.nvidia.com/apple and you will be propmted for a password. Notice that the realm is /marketing/oem. I don't have to explain what OEM means.

It is not unusual for companies to deny any type of partnership until both parties are ready for an announcement. I would suspect that nvidia and Apple and are having serious contract negotiations.