Heinz68
08-30-08, 01:03 AM
Personally I believe NVIDIA is going to loose big marked share on Intel chipsets for not having any chipset for Nehalem. AMD also has some great new chipsets so I can see also some big NVIDIA market share loss there. Basically only if NVIDIA will have some great new chipsets they will be able to stay competitive in the chipset market, otherwise they are finished doesn't matter what they say.
Anyway here is the article.
Nvidia to stay in chipset business
Written by Fuad Abazovic at Fudzilla (http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9179&Itemid=1)
Friday, 29 August 2008 19:42
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.
SLI is the last something sexy and exclusive, and Nvidia will try to hold to it as much as it can, otherwise it might get its chipset business unit in trouble, and I am sure they don’t want to do that.
Anyway here is the article.
Nvidia to stay in chipset business
Written by Fuad Abazovic at Fudzilla (http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9179&Itemid=1)
Friday, 29 August 2008 19:42
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.
SLI is the last something sexy and exclusive, and Nvidia will try to hold to it as much as it can, otherwise it might get its chipset business unit in trouble, and I am sure they don’t want to do that.