Nvidia to stay in chipset business
 

Nvidia wants to continue making chipsets beyond 2009. We learned that from Tom Petersen, Director of MCP Marketing at Nvidia, and this was also confirmed by General Manager of Chipset Business, Drew Henry. They also confirmed that Nvidia has a cross-licensing agreement with Intel and that theoretically it could do a QPI chipset. We got a confirmation that a new DMI chipset for current generation of Core 2 processors is in plans. That is the next one to come for Intel.

They again confirmed that they won’t be any Nehalem chipset for Bloomfield / Core i7 processors and that Nvidia’s way getting SLI to its customers is Nforce 200 chip or the software licensing program announced a bit more than 24 hours ago. Nvidia obviously has some new chipsets for AMD Phenom / Athlon generation, but it's still inconclusive if we will see any OPI chipset for Nehalem generation anytime soon. We have a strong feeling that this issue will be resolved, or otherwise Nvidia will slowly lose its market share in Intel’s chipsets.

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