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nVidia Announces MXM for Notebooks

Posted by simoniker on Monday May 17, 2004 @05:48AM from the mmm dept.

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)"

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Missed opportunity? by Ianoo · 2004-05-17 06:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

I won't deny this is a great idea for graphics, but surely with a little more work, adding internal connectors for communications and audio, this could be turned into a generalised standard that would finally replace those horrendous semi-proprietary mini-PCI cards you find inside laptops?

Imagine the possible combinations of devices you could fit into a laptop with two of these slots accessible externally so they could specify their own connectors, or alternatively wired up on the motherboard to USB, FireWire, RJ-45, RJ-12, a few Jack plugs and the video ports on the outside of the macine, all available through a 250-pin connector?