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Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, end of SLI?
X-bit labs - Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, Multi-GPU SLI Tech in
Danger. "Nvidia chipsets are known for issues with data corruption as well as some other problems. Considering long-time troubles, packaging problems and the lack of QPI license, it is hardly a surprise that mainboard makers are not enthusiastic about Nvidia chipsets." http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipset...in_Danger.html |
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Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, end of SLI?
Don't worry, nvidia has strongly denied it.
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Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, end of SLI?
This story seems to have originated at DigiTimes.
Their latest update is: "Nvidia said to be quitting chipset business; company denies claims" DT: http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080801VL203.html Note: goes to subscription after a few days. They are unimpressed with the "confirmation by official denial". The XbitLabs article was interesting. I was surprised to learn that SLI requires motherboard support (whereas CrossFire does not). That makes NV's fate as a high-end graphics maker contingent on getting that support (unless they can cleverly parallelize on a single slot, or re-engineer to bridge the cards independently). Other challenges facing NV include: * G84 and G86 melt-down recall fiasco * is NV IGP performance falling behind ATI ? The low end of the graphics card market, and perhaps the mid range, may be about to suffer the fate as many PC ports that started out as cards, migrated to on-board, and ended up in the southbridge. The AMD/ATI 790GX intro next week may be yet another threat to NV (well, for buyers who don't insist on Intel CPUs, anyway). According to DT, and perhaps coincidental with the 790GX and NV troubles, some graphics card cloners have decided that the future of those cards is not rosy, and perhaps they need to make IGP motherboards (they need to ask abit.com.tw about that, rumored to be the next victim of MB market consolidation). "More graphics card makers to start selling IGP motherboards" DT: http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080725PD205.html -- Regards, Bob Niland http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider. |
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Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, end of SLI?
rjn wrote:
The low end of the graphics card market, and perhaps the mid range, may be about to suffer the fate as many PC ports that started out as cards, migrated to on-board, and ended up in the southbridge. The AMD/ATI 790GX intro next week may be yet another threat to NV (well, for buyers who don't insist on Intel CPUs, anyway). According to DT, and perhaps coincidental with the 790GX and NV troubles, some graphics card cloners have decided that the future of those cards is not rosy, and perhaps they need to make IGP motherboards (they need to ask abit.com.tw about that, rumored to be the next victim of MB market consolidation). "More graphics card makers to start selling IGP motherboards" DT: http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080725PD205.html I think that's just about right, the graphics cards are going away. And this will be especially true when laptops become the dominant form-factor in PCs and desktops go away. In a laptop, your upgrade options are limited -- basicallly buy a new laptop is all you can do. Mind you, I see plenty of opportunities for GPUs in the laptop era, but they will simply be chips soldiered to motherboards, maybe as part of a southbridge, maybe discrete, or even as part of the CPU. So chipmakers are going to be making deals with OEMs to see which chips get shipped with which chips go with which models. Yousuf Khan |
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Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, end of SLI?
Ed Light wrote:
Don't worry, nvidia has strongly denied it. And continues to, dutifully reported by DT: "Nvidia says it is not quitting the chipset market" http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080804VL201.html The Inq remains unfazed, and piles on with some supposed insider details: "Nvidia chipsets are history" http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir.../08/02/nvidia- chipsets-dead "Just over a week ago, Nvidia's maximum leader, Jen-Hsun Huang, held a meeting with Taiwanese mobo partners. He directly asked them if there was a reason why Nvidia should stay in the chipset business. You could hear the crickets chirp." If (big if) this report, and the Inq's interpretation of it, are true, I expect Nv to remain in full denial mode until they have an SLI migration plan - or until they merge with someone, which strikes me as an equally likely outcome. -- Regards, Bob Niland http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider. |
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Nvidia Set to Quit Chipset Business, end of SLI?
Yousuf Khan quoted:
... it is hardly a surprise that mainboard makers are not enthusiastic about Nvidia chipsets. In related recent news on this topic, AMD just let it be known that they plan to offer their own server chipset, "Fiorano" next year. We only learned of it on Aug 18. Presumably nVidia and Broadcom have known longer. This hardly makes it more likely that nV will stay in the AMD chipset market. -- Regards, Bob Niland http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider. |
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