THERE ARE A ton of 'rumors' floating around about Nvidia giving up the ghost on its ailing chipset division. Nvidia is desperately trying to deny it, but don't believe the spin, the division is deader than an Nvidia mobile GPU.

Just over a week ago, Nvidia's maximum leader, Jen-Hsun Huang, held a meeting with Taiwanese mobo partners. He directly asked them if there was a reason why Nvidia should stay in the chipset business. You could hear the crickets chirp.

In mainland China. No one came up with a reason, so the division was officially killed, and the teams will be rolled into GPU projects.

Nvidia PR is having the proverbial hissy-fit, but ignore it, they do that a lot. The INQUIRER has talked to people who were at the meeting, and they confirmed the reports, and are dead convnced that Nvidia chipsets are a thing of the past.

This is not to say that there will be no new chipsets from today. Things currently done or almost done will be out, but new designs won't be started, and early-stage projects are not likely to continue. Deep breaths people, projects on the near term horizon are safe, or at least safe from that paticular axe.

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Well, if it's true, this certainly comes as quite the surprise.

nVidia was unable to come to a licensing agreement with Intel to make chipsets for Intel's upcoming Quick-Path processors. That's the big reason behind this. Moving forward, there's not going to be much of a need for nVidia chipsets anymore. Both Intel and AMD's chipsets are really good.

nVidia's future is starting to look troubling. Back when AMD bought out ATi, I saw that nVidia was getting cornered into a bad situation. If Intel ever comes out with a competitive graphics solution, then nVidia is going to be in trouble. I almost think that nVidia should try to buy out VIA. I know that VIA's processors aren't very good, but nVidia has got to be able to provide a complete platform also if they don't want to risk a swift death.

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about them failing to come up with an agreement, so good point Chug.

I would also agree that there's less of a need these days for nVidia's chipsets.

This is good news as Nvidia chipsets just plain suck! I'm on a machine right now that has one. Never have been able to get the onboard ethernet to work.

Don't particularly care for their video cards either.

I like the video cards but when it comes to mobo chipsets Intel is my preferred choice.

too bad honestly. After all that money that UnVIDIA spent on ULi this happens. tisk tisk tisk.

they deserve it for not supporting the faulty ULi southbridges >:(

The INQUIRER as a source? lol

Was just about to say the same.


But it's a bit sad, really. nVIDIA are kool, and this means yet another competitor is dead. In a couple of years, there'll be one major corporation for every specific thing. Bleh...

Well I don't trust the INQUIRER any less than I trust nVidia's PR department.

I agree.