nVidia Announces MXM for Notebooks

Giant_Panda writes "NVIDIA just announced a new mobile graphics interface for PCI Express based notebooks (PR here). NVIDIA is calling the interface MXM (Mobile PCI eXpress Module), and they seem to have the support of the Taiwanese notebook ODMs on this one. HotHardware has a few pictures and details on the technology - it looks like MXM is a royalty-free standard too, so other mobile GPU manufactures like ATi may even make MXM modules. (More MXM Info - HardOCP, Tweaktown)"

Comments

MXM looks exactly like....

[AciDive]

MXM looks exactly like AlienWares Do-It-Yourself Upgradeable Mobile Graphics Technology.

Re:MXM looks exactly like....

[DAldredge]

Alienwares modules only work across their systems. This new nvidia design will work across different brands of laptops.

Re:Ten Leading Notebook Manufacturers

[obsid1an]

From The Register:

"Nvidia said it had already won the backing of Far Eastern ODMs like Quanta, Wistron, FIC, Uniwill, Clevo, AOpen, Tatung, Arima, Asustek and Mitac, all of whom have said they will offer MXM-based notebooks. Since these ten already account for many of the world's name and no-name notebooks, MXM is likely to grow by stealth, becoming a de facto standard."

Re:Ten Leading Notebook Manufacturers

[Zocalo]

Yup. They are listed in the penultimate paragraph of this article at the Register. The main thing is that many of these manufacturer's also make the cases for the big players who seldom actually manufacture their own cases.

Re:what does Intel think ?

[hattig]

This is using PCI-Express, just with a different slot more suitable for the task. c.f. mini-PCI and PCI.

Intel do integrated graphics. They'll probably simply have non-MXM notebooks that aren't upgradeable, or use a dummy pass-thru MXM card like the article suggests. Yes, that means that connector also has video in pins.

Re:Upgrade video card!

[SilentChris]

You can already do this (big red letters on this page).

Re:Ten Leading Notebook Manufacturers

[DAldredge]

ODM Original Design Manufacturer or someone made a typo while trying to type in OEM

Re:What does everyone have against the letter 'E'?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

The worst part is when people confuse PCI-X, which is an existing standard with commercially available (although expensive) motherboards and parts, with PCI-Express, which there are no commercially available motherboards or parts. People shorthanding PCI-Express to PCI-X only serves to confuse the issue.

RTFA please

[BayBlade]

Can anyone here spot the poster or moderators here who didn't?

Let me save you all the increadible effort and paste the following from the first paragraph which is obviously too far for some of us to read:

A few companies, like Alienware and Toshiba, have recently introduced upgradeable notebooks, but they each use different standards. Alienware's parts can't be used in Toshiba's notebooks, and vice-versa.