NVIDIA To Exit Chipset Business

The rumor that we discussed a few months back is looking more real. Vigile writes "Once the darling of the enthusiast chipset market, NVIDIA has apparently decided to quit development of future chipsets for all platforms. This 'state of NVIDIA' editorial at PC Perspective first highlighted the fact that the company was backing away from its plans to develop a DMI-based chipset for Intel's Lynnfield processors due to legal pressure from Intel and debates over licensing restrictions. That effectively left NVIDIA out in the cold in terms of high-end chipsets, but even more interesting is the later revelation that NVIDIA has only one remaining chipset product to release, what we know as ION 2, and that it was mainly built for Apple's upcoming products. NVIDIA still plans to sell its current offerings, like MCP61 for AMD platforms and current generation ION for netbooks and nettops, but will focus solely on discrete graphics options after this final release."

Comments

Re:What about their embedded procs?

[Mortice]

Tegra, Tegra, wherefore art though Tegra?

I'm not. Wherefore do you ask?

It's because of latency

[pizzach]

I stopped using discrete modems and went for winmodems (softmodems) almost immediately because of the latency getting the data through the serial port. Sadly, it is the same for graphics cards which is why you will never catch me dead with one in my machine. I will pown (sic) you all everyday of the week.

Good riddance

[Anonymous Coward]

Just like when VIA announced they'd stop making chipsets:

Good riddance, nVidia. Take your bowl of broken, buggy chipsets with you on the way out.

Next up: SiS.

I'd have mentioned ServerWorks, but they got brought by Broadcom. Oh, in that case:

Next up: Broadcom.