Nvidia Halts Chipset Developments
Nvidia yesterday confirmed that the company is halting development of its chipsets because of legal issues with Intel.
Robert Sherbin, lead corporate communications spokesman for Nvidia, told PC Magazine that the company will postpone further chipset investments until legal issues with Intel are resolved in court next year. Intel says that its four-year agreement with Nvidia doesn't cover the Nehalem or Core series of processors and, while the legalities have nothing to do with Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia has stopped developing chipsets for AMD as well.
"We have said that we will continue to innovate integrated solutions for Intel's FSB architecture," Sherbin told PC Magazine in an email. "We firmly believe that this market has a long healthy life ahead. But because of Intel's improper claims to customers and the market that we aren't licensed to the new DMI bus and its unfair business tactics, it is effectively impossible for us to market chipsets for future CPUs. So, until we resolve this matter in court next year, we'll postpone further chipset investments."
Check out the full story on PC Magazine.
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Does this cover the Ion / Atom as well? There'd been scuffles with the pricing from Intel making it hard for Nvidia to compete so I'd not be suprised if this is somehow related
What's Intel got to counter?
Without nVidia's portfolio Intel's current IGP options are very limited, both in terms of functionality and performance (unless you only want something basic and mobile, with minimal power draw). Haven't really seen much movement in the i5 and i7 department either, have you?
All it will result in is people going out and buying nVidia or AMD cards. On the IGP front I reckon AMD should capitalise on this potential market share. Match up some cheap quad cores (Athlon II x4), with even faster IGP hardware and bingo: low-price/high-performance computing. I don't think nVidia's loss is going to have too much of a negative impact for AMD - the nVidia 7050 and 8200 were dissapointing for me and I resented not having some 9000 series gear to tinker with. I'm happy with the AMD 780G's and their overclocking abilities.
How do you reckon this will turn out?