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."

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Does this mean that

[PC and Sony Fanboy]

So ... nVidia doesn't need to fix the thousands (possibly many many more) laptops that they've supplied bad parts for?

Or are they still in the graphics game, but not in the chipset game (can you do that?)

Re:AMD / ATI chipsets are good on board with ram

[paganizer]

explain to me what side port ram is, and why it is necessary?