NVidia is leaving the chipset biz?

[SUBMAN1]

Now I thought they made great chipsets! What happened?? 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...ipset_leaving/