Nvidia considering to pulling out of the chipset business?
@ 2008/08/01We're hearing more and more rumours about Nvidia's chipset business and how the company is losing support from the motherboard manufacturers and according to a story on The Inquirer it now looks like even the really big guys are pulling out. Although Charlie appears to mostly have based his story on the lack of products on various motherboard manufacturers websites, but considering how few high-end Nvidia boards were on display during Computex, this is hardly a surprise.
We've confirmed with some of our sources that at least some of the companies in Charlie's list have indeed pulled the plug on their 790i boards and some even went as far as canceling all future Nvidia based motherboard products. The word on the street is even more worrying, as we're hearing rumours of Nvidia considering to pulling out of the chipset business altogether. Considering that Intel didn't grant Nvidia a QPI license, what is left for Nvidia's chipset business?
We've confirmed with some of our sources that at least some of the companies in Charlie's list have indeed pulled the plug on their 790i boards and some even went as far as canceling all future Nvidia based motherboard products. The word on the street is even more worrying, as we're hearing rumours of Nvidia considering to pulling out of the chipset business altogether. Considering that Intel didn't grant Nvidia a QPI license, what is left for Nvidia's chipset business?
NV boards for AMD CPUs would also mean ATI CF... so again a no go.. they had a chance to make SLI tech work on all boards; and make 2 cards popular, but they kept their cards close their chest and now Intel is doing the same, which is hurting more since SLI, while popular with gamers, in overall, is a very high end luxury option.