Nvidia and Intel speak out about chipset dispute

by Sylvie Barak on 9 October 2009, 11:38

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Ion, Nvidia's only ray of hope?

Meanwhile, Nvidia is still selling its Ion chipset.

"Customers including Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, ASUS and others are continuing to incorporate GeForce 9400M and ION products in their current designs. There are many customers that have plans to use ION or GeForce 9400M chipsets for upcoming designs, as well," said Burke.

Burke also noted that Nvidia continued to sell a higher quantity of chipsets on AMD platforms than AMD itself. "MCP61-based platforms continue to be extremely well positioned in the entry CPU segments where AMD CPUs are most competitive vs. Intel," he continued, maintaining Nvidia would "continue to innovate integrated solutions for Intel's FSB architecture."

"We firmly believe that this market has a long healthy life ahead," Burke told us, concluding with curious optimism. "We expect our MCP business for both Intel and AMD to be strong well into the future."

It wasn't clear where Burke expects all this future Intel chipset business to come, especially if Nvidia loses the court case and is denied the opportunity to make chipsets for the latest Intel CPUs. We can only assume that Nvidia expects Intel to need graphics help for its other platforms for the forseeable future, and that Nvidia will be in a position to provide it.

 



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I see this as good for 2 reasons:

1. Most nVidia cipsets for Intel CPUs were crap anyway. So this saves the non-savvy customer from making a bad purchase.

2. Now nVidia know what it's like to be locked out. They screwed customers with artificial limitations on SLI and now has done the same with Physx. Maybe this will make them think twice about their business practices (although i doubt it will unfortunately)
Good article, Sylvie.

I do wonder if this is slight payback for the SLI license issues Intel had originally.
shaithis
i see this as good…

Now nvidia know what it's like to be locked out. They screwed customers with artificial limitations on sli and now has done the same with physx. Maybe this will make them think twice about their business practices (although i doubt it will unfortunately)

This
kalniel
Good article, Sylvie.

Seconded, apart from a few wordplays that made me cringe a little this is a much better article than the other day. Thank you
As AMD owns ATi, shouldnt Intel be friends with Nvidia? Otherwise, Intel will find themselves very very alone and bashed about by a AMD-ATi-Nvidia alliance.