NVIDIA denies quitting Chipset Business

jmke · 3rd August 2008, 00:00

Puzzled, we asked Nvidia Platform Products PR chief Bryan Del Rizzo to weigh in. Del Rizzo's response came swiftly and left little open for interpretation:

1. The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.
2. In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:
1. Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.
2. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.
3. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. . . .
3. We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15240

jmke · 3rd August 2008, 01:14

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HEXUS.channel spoke to Ben Berraondo, the UK PR manager for NVIDIA to ask for an NVIDIA perspective on this. “Every company that has already released a 790i board isn’t pulling it,” he said. “You’ll have to talk to Foxconn to get the details of their specific case but I doubt it’s just a chipset issue.”

We then spoke to Rui Pereira, channel sales manager at Gigabyte UK. He said: “If we are going to pull our 790i board I have received no confirmation from HQ. As far as I’m concerned the 790i is still on the roadmap.” He did reveal, however, that back at Computex this year, Gigabyte had encountered compatibility issues between the 790i and some Intel CPUs.

Another motherboard maker we were able to speak to was MSI, in the form of product marketing manager Richard Stewart. “We have a 790i board called the P7N2 Diamond out at the moment and it has no reported issues,”he said.

http://channel.hexus.net/content/ite...m=14745&page=2

3rd August 2008, 00:00	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	NVIDIA denies quitting Chipset Business Puzzled, we asked Nvidia Platform Products PR chief Bryan Del Rizzo to weigh in. Del Rizzo's response came swiftly and left little open for interpretation: 1. The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business. 2. In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms: 1. Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years. 2. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability. 3. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. . . . 3. We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15240 __________________

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