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General | Posted by Max at Aug. 1, 2008 - 5:43 pm

Nvidia losing support from motherboard makers @ Fudzilla

The word on the street is even more worrying, as we're hearing rumours of Nvidia considering to pulling out of the chipset business altogether. Considering that Intel didn't grant Nvidia a QPI license, what is left for Nvidia's chipset business? Not much, that's for sure and with the announcement last month that Nvidia will use the nForce 200 bridge chip as a solution for adding SLI to the X58 platform, these rumours might not be too far from the truth.

Nvidia Reportedly Plans To Exit The Chipset Business; Lehman Contends Report Is Incorrect (Updated) @ Barron's

But Lehman analyst Tim Luke writes this morning that his checks with Nvidia management in both the U.S. and Taiwan finds that the company remains committed to staying in the chipset business, which is 17%-18% of Nvidia’s revenues.

Nvidia 790i board pulled by makers @ the Inquirer

Now comes word that their high-end desktop mobo, famous for rumored data corruption problems, is being silently killed. The three companies mentioned above have pulled the boards from their product pages without so much as a footnote. The pages for Foxconn and Gigabyte look like this, note the lack of high end NV parts.

All Nvidia G84 and G86s are bad @ the Inquirer

The official story is that it was a batch of end-of-life parts that used a different bonding/substrate process for only that batch. Once again, the trusty INQUIRER bullshit detectors went off so loudly that the phone almost vibrated out of my hand. More than enough people tell us both the G84 and G86 use the same ASIC across the board, and no changes were made during their lives.

One thing that's not being mentioned is that 790i was pretty bad to begin with, 780a has it beat every way; maybe they're just updating their lines. Then again, they didn't pull their previous Intel chipsets, or for that matter, any other chipset no matter how outmoded it was.

Nope, it's just bad.

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1 - Posted by Get it right on August 1, 2008 - 6:25 pm

PC MAG ARTICLE

Nvidia said Friday that there's no truth to a Taiwan report that claims it's exiting the chipset business.

That report was published by Digitimes, a normally fairly reputable IT publication that claimed that Nvidia met with its main motherboard clients this week and asked for support for its next-generation chipsets.

The motherboard makers' response? Silence.

Although such a withdrawal would be highly unlikely, ExtremeTech asked Nvidia for comment. "The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business," said Bryan Del Rizzo, a company representative, in a statement. (The same statement was later resent as an official company statement.)

"In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms," Del Rizzo added.

"Mercury Research has reported that the Nvidia market share of AMD platforms in Q2'08 was 60%," Del Rizzo said. "We have been steady in this range for over two years. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability. [The] nForce 790i SLI [chipset] is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI.

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

2 - Posted by Kurtis on August 1, 2008 - 7:22 pm

Thanks for the additional information. :)

3 - Posted by Max Slowik on August 2, 2008 - 4:35 pm

I posted a link to NVIDIA's rebuttal.

4 - Posted by Kurtis on August 3, 2008 - 4:31 pm

What link, Max?

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