nVidia quitting chipset business? [u]
August 1st 2008
DigiTimes reports that nVidia has decided to quit the chipset business, sources close at one of Taiwan's top motherboard makers have revealed. As the story is told, nVidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners to gauge support for it continuing to develop chipsets in the future.
DigiTimes reporter Ricky Morris, writes that although it's still early days and not all the facts are known at the time of writing, it is believed nVidia will transfer the chipset team to working on GPU projects. For their part, some mobo makers have already canceled upcoming high-end projects based on the nForce 7-series chipset.
If this report is born out, nVidia is effectively ceding the top-end graphics card market to AMD / ATI and its Crossfire solution.
Previously, IGM had speculated that nVidia-created chipsets might be at the core of Apple's upcoming MacBook and MacBook pro revisions.
[u] Brian Burke of nVidia contacted Daily Tech to refute claims that it will exit the chipset market, saying that "we're looking forward to bringing new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms." [u]
