Nvidian MCP 78 slated for November

A COUPLE OF NEW codenames hit the Chinese wires this morning, as chip watchers set their sights on a new generation of features due out by the end of the year.

In the green camp, the whispers are that MCP 78 will be hitting in November. The central part of the Nforce platform, the new MCP 78 series will feature Hybrid SLI technology for those that want it, as well as a new iteration of onboard Purevideo. It will also come without integrated graphics for hardcore users with no such need.

Allegedly, A01 engineering samples are about to hit the Taiwanese mobo makers for evaluation. The November date currently being bandied about is later than previously thought, with market-watchers previously thinking that October was the likely time frame.

Whether the fabled GeForce 9800 could have had any impact on the launch date we couldn't possibly speculate, but we will anyway, and suggest that the delay means that the 9800 will almost certainly ship in December, hot on the heels. Err, ok, probably.

Meanwhile, DAAMIT is gearing up to launch its carbon coby of Intel's iAMT, currently going under the imaginative title of Remote IT, which really does what it says on the tin.

AMD's delay in releasing a competitive technology will surely please Intel, which has been making hay with its vPro programme. The Texans are reportedly contemplating their own business platform to compete with vPro. Hopefully they can do a better job than with AMD Live, a platform launched 18 months ago which is yet to amount to anything consequential, or which is yet to have a cohesive vision attached to it. µ