Nvidia gives up on its chipset business finally!!!

[Digital_Trans]

According to DigiTimes Nvidia has given in to its rivals and is closing it motherboard business. Mole’s from inside Taiwan top motherboard makers said.

“Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners to gauge support for it continuing to develop chipsets in the future. The motherboard makers' response? Silence”.

It is expected that Nvidia will now concentrate on its GPU business and will move its resources from its motherboard development team to aid its GPU team.

Its assumed that Nvidia will be under pressure in the GPU field now due to ATI having crossfire support, while Nvidia now has to try and licence its own SLI technology.

With this impending withdrawal from the Motherboard market also casts doubt on the recent whispers about Nvidia developing a chipset for Apple’s new Macbook Pro.

Intel is on a roll now!!! Go X58!!! If ATI has a better product and if it's cheaper NVIDIA might be fighting their own pissing contest all alone in the dark getting wet.

[CaptNKILL]

Eh?

I'll believe this when I read it on a reputable site.

Very crappy if true. Whether you like nforce chipsets in high end systems or not, onboard graphics from ATI and nvidia are the only things keeping low end PCs in this decade as far as graphics performance.

[MikeC]

Official response from NVIDIA:

The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.

In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:

a. 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.

b. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.

c. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. In fact, a recent article on Tom’s Hardware recently came to the same conclusion: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/NVIDIA-790i-SLI,1977-29.html



We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms.

[CaptNKILL]

Thanks mike.

Good news. :thumbsup:

[Monolyth]

Intel is on a roll now!!! Go X58!!! If ATI has a better product and if it's cheaper NVIDIA might be fighting their own pissing contest all alone in the dark getting wet.

If true this is not good news. Less competition means less choice, less innovation, higher price.

Hypothetically if this is true: nVidia's focus on a SLI licensing model could actually bring better SLI performance on a wide variety of chipsets including Intel, VIA, AMD, which is not necessarily a terrible thing. In addition the threat of Larabee has probably increased the need to focus more on their graphics parts. I'm guessing that the focus now would be on perfecting GPU, SLI, & CUDA technologies. A SLI licensing model would help to ensure further SLI proliferation and help solidify nVidia's chief money-maker: graphics.

This is all very rumortastic though, but I can see nVidia's need to secure their front-line in the face of recent AMD developments and Intel future developments.

[nekrosoft13]

thanks Mike

nForce might not be popular choice for some. But i never had problem with any nForce board.

When I build, I will always consider nForce board.!

[Monolyth]

Just read the reply from MikeC, good to hear, but I doubt nVidia would be so open about such a shift in priorities.

Yes they have the AMD market, but AMD does not produce enthusiast-level CPU's anymore.
- Without the licensing for high-end Nehalem MCP development how is nVidia going to answer?
- What are nVidia's plans to combat Intel when it brings Larabee to the table?
- What kind of development support will be behind nVidia's SLI licensing offer on 3rd party chipsets?

[Medion]

Without the licensing for high-end Nehalem MCP development how is nVidia going to answer?

they have the licensing for it now, they just didn't get it in time to have an initial product launch. So they're putting the nforce 200 in the X58 chipset for SLI, while nForce 8 should come out to compete with "X68" further down the road.


nForce might not be popular choice for some. But i never had problem with any nForce board.

When I build, I will always consider nForce board.!

The way I see it, if something works for you, keep it :) As for me, I'm on my 3rd nforce right now. I've gotten mixed results, so I'm likely going to avoid them in the future.

[npras42]

Intel is on a roll now!!! Go X58!!! If ATI has a better product and if it's cheaper NVIDIA might be fighting their own pissing contest all alone in the dark getting wet.

What makes you think this is good news? Intel charge a fortune for their chipsets and without competition this is only ever going to get worse and worse. I'm very glad to hear this is not true, even if I don't intend to buy a NV chipset in the near future.

[Digital_Trans]

Well, for one I've not had any luck with NForce chipsets. It's like being a pc user with the **** end of the stick. You know there's countless forum posts on how nForce chipsets stack up on here. I love Intel's chipsets since using the X38 last year. I hope to keep using one once the new X58 Series chipsets come out with SLI support so I can enjoy both worlds of technology! I know most users on here would vote for X58 Motherboard with SLI vs. another failed nForce based motherboard. Take a poll if you would like to.

[Digital_Trans]

What makes you think this is good news? Intel charge a fortune for their chipsets and without competition this is only ever going to get worse and worse. I'm very glad to hear this is not true, even if I don't intend to buy a NV chipset in the near future.

AT LEAST INTEL HAS OFFERED BETTER STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OVER ANY DAMN NFORCE PRODUCT I'VE PAID FOR! YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR~~~
I will pay more for better quality any day of the week when it comes to an Intel based chipset vs. an nForce chipset. I will do the same for NVIDIA'S GPU........

[Butter Bandit]

nForce boards have never given me any problems, well, except for my board that blew up...that was my bad though......too much voltage

[Digital_Trans]

I've used Qty. 4 nForce motherboards and all of which failed. Just to note, I used Intel's X38 and I never had any problems it was like being handed a glass of ice water coming out of hell from using an nForce based motherboard.
Speaking of which I'm using an nForce 680i Hybird SLI/ATI Motherboard which seems to run when it wants to. Once the X58 comes out, I'll be on it like a kid in a candy store!

[Monolyth]

Now that we've got that out of our system how about a /thread.

[slaWter]

nVidia can do whatever they want to do... I'm done with those chipsets anyway.

[lee63]

For one, this should be in the Rumor mill thread, two this is gonna turn in to stupid pissing match between Nvidia and Intel. CLOSED.