NVidia is leaving the chipset biz?

[SUBMAN1]

Now I thought they made great chipsets! What happened?? :o I'd rather have one of their chipsets than say a VIA or a Intel!!!

Now that I think about it, they own ULI / ALI too!!! Hmm!

-S


Nvidia waving goodbye to chipsets?

By James Sherwood

1st August 2008 15:54 GMT

The web is alight with rumours that Nvidia has had enough of the chipset business and is poised to leave.

According to a report by Digitimes, unknown sources have said that Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners, the aim of which was to gauge support for its continued chipset development.

Chipsets are thought to account for about 18 per cent of Nvidia’s business, but Tim Luke, an analyst at Lehman Brothers, said earlier today that Nvidia “continues to be challenged by significant competitive and pricing pressures in its core GPU business”.

He also claimed that the firm, which originally only provided chipsets to AMD, has seen a decline in chipset sales to AMD since it acquired ATI.

Nvidia is yet to make an official comment.http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/01/nvidia_chipset_leaving/

[FIREWALL]

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. :hmm:

[Konovalov]

I hope that this is not true.

[Stealth Hunter]

I doubt it's true. If it is, then they better be ready for a helluva lotta pissed off PC users. The most common chipsets to date are made by Nvidia. If they left, then support for them would be dropped for millions of video game nerds, the gaming market would go crazy (ATI really isn't all that popular it seems like), and PCs would go wacko from the madness.

This might be another ploy to try to get higher sales. We'll wait and see.

[goldorak]

Nvidia making good chipsets ? Whats next ? H.R.C for president ? :rotfl:
Nivida makes crap chipsets, the only reason to use them at all is for sli.
The best chipsets are made by Intel, and following by AMD (now that they have absorbed ATI). But Nvidia ? No no, you don't want your hard drives corrupting data. You don't want a firewall that to work must not be enabled. The only nice thing to come out of a nvidia chipset was soundstorm and even that was a byproduct of the first xbox.

[SUBMAN1]

Nvidia making good chipsets ? Whats next ? H.R.C for president ? :rotfl:
Nivida makes crap chipsets, the only reason to use them at all is for sli.
The best chipsets are made by Intel, and following by AMD (now that they have absorbed ATI). But Nvidia ? No no, you don't want your hard drives corrupting data. You don't want a firewall that to work must not be enabled. The only nice thing to come out of a nvidia chipset was soundstorm and even that was a byproduct of the first xbox.I still own an NForce 2 box - the best MB they ever made! In my opinion of course.

-S

[Jimbuna]

This might be another ploy to try to get higher sales. We'll wait and see.

My suspicions as well :hmm:

[Peto]

If Nvidia is leaving the chipset business, it probably means they have something completely different up their sleeve(s). Or maybe they think that multi-core processors are going to morph into units which have different cores specifically locked in for distinct functions, there-by removing the requirement for having a chipset to bridge between components.

Imagine a CPU with the chipset inherint in it's design, its only communication requirement being between media storage and the cpu. Removing all the "bridge work" would make system a bit quicker... :hmm:

These companies don't typically give up a technology when they are the leader unless they see/understand that it's about to become obsolete.

Time will tell I recun.

[kiwi_2005]

I remeber when 3dfx went out of bussiness cause of nVidia, 3dfx was popular back in the 90's 3dfx voodoo 8mb with 16bit graphics!:rock: :D nVidia brings out 32bit and that was the end of 3dfx. Well im not going to support this new company they will die out in a year or two. I stuck with the 3dfx until she was useless and end up buy a geforce 2 ;)

So now nVidia is going elsewhere, no problem just change to ATI if i have too.