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Nvidia to Buy ULI Electronics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the acquisitions dept.

Steve from Hexus writes "In a move that has taken the technology market by surprise, graphics card and chipset manufacturer Nvidia has announced its intention to buy ULI Electronics, Taiwanese chipset designer and maker: 'NVIDIA openly recognizes that a large proportion of chipset innovation happens in the Far East where ULi is based and that is one of the things that makes ULi an attractive proposition. The move is seen by many as good sense on NVIDIA's part as its own in-house chipset makers are based solely in the USA. ULi, in contrast, has relationships with chipset makers in Taiwan and China, as well as in San Jose.'"

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  1. Re:Not a positive move for consumers by poofyhairguy82 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Via chipsets are not what they used to be

    Say that to my new Via Asus board that support dual channel, dual core, and is 100% Linux compatible out of the box.

    Nvidia is not the only choice.

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  2. Re:Well, ... by IamNotWitchboy · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just thought I should remind you that Nvidia doesnt manufacture video cards. They make chips and then sell them to other companies that in turn manufacture the video cards and motherboards that you buy in the retail or OEM channel.

    Its those companies (MSI, ASUS, XFX, Gigabyte, etc.) you should be complaining to.

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  3. Re:Not a positive move for consumers by m50d · · Score: 2, Informative
    You must not have tried very many of them...

    Two or three, just my own home system.

    They do commonly have poor support for Linux,

    Not my experience at all. They actually ship linux drivers on the CDs which is more than most will do, and AFAICS are pretty helpful with specs.

    particularly IDE without DMA, or something like that.

    170mb PIO-only drive worked fine in the two of my systems I tried it in.

    In the past few years, their northbridges have been getting hotter and hotter very very quickly, and yet motherboard makers rarely put a fan on them. Besides serious power consumption problems, that leads to real instability unless your system has terribly good airflow.

    The box I'm writing this on has no fan on the northbridge and a very cheap-and-crappy case, but hasn't had any stability problems. I've left it on for days without a hint of trouble.

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