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NVidia Reportedly Will Exit Chipset Business
xav_jones sends along a story from X bit Laboratories claiming that NVidia is ready to quit making chipsets. That story links one from DigiTimes, which reports that NVidia has denied that it's getting out of the business. "[NVidia] is about to quit chipset business, which automatically means that the company's much-hyped multi-GPU SLI technology is either in danger or re-considered. Moreover, several mainboard makers have already ceased making high-end NVidia-based mainboards. [NVidia has]... reportedly decided to quit core-logic business to concentrate on development of graphics processors and following failure to secure license to build and sell chipsets compatible with Intel Corp.'s microprocessors that use Quick-Path Interconnect bus."
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/print/20080801105547_Nvidia_Set_to_Quit_Chipset_Business_Multi_GPU_SLI_Tech_in_Danger.html
AMD / ATI chipset are good on board with side port ram, nice overclocking tools, hyper flash, pci-2.0. Cross fire works on any chip set as well.
Is the correct title to this story. See here. "The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business."
"Mercury Research has reported that the Nvidia market share of AMD platforms in Q2'08 was 60%," Del Rizzo said. "We have been steady in this range for over two years."
"We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms," Del Rizzo added.
Joel Hruska at Ars Technia appears to have spoken to NVidia, and the article he's written says NVidia is not going to quit the chipset market anytime soon. Looks like its just a rumor... http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/08/01/nvidia-to-ars-were-not-leaving-the-chipset-market
"Laziness is an optimisation protocol"
NVidia licensed SLI for the Intel X58 chipset (which will support both crossfire and sli). Pretty sure Skulltrail supports SLI as well.
indeed. on my system it leaked an enormous amount of memory and was dropping packets. It also took quite some effort to remove the driver.
Look at the editor who posted it...you suprised? Time to bust out the kdawsonfud tag.
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The nforce 6xx series chipsets were a striking failure. They did not work properly.
No motherboard manufacturer can claim 6xx boards with few problems.
They're using their grammar skills there.