Nvidia prepares to wind up Intel
THE GREEN GOBLIN is about to wind up its chum Intel by releasing a chipset that works with Chipzilla's Nehalem series processors.
Intel claims Nvidia does not have the legal rights to make chips for its newest processors and says that its 4-year-old chipset license agreement with Nvidia does not cover the Core i series of processors.
According to the Chinese language site HKEPC, Nvidia is planning to bring out a MCP99 chipset that supports Nehalem processors and Intel's Direct Media Interface, or DMI.
DMI is the technology that Intel doesn't want the Green Goblin to get its sticky paws on.
It is not clear if Nvidia will release the chipset without settling the legal matter with Chipzilla first. Nvidia is saying nothing on the matter.
However Nvidia's current 9400M Intel-compatible chipset, which is used with Core 2 architecture-based processors, has been quite successful and it is clear that Nvidia wants more of that action.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang famously in July said that his outfit is "pretty darn clever. There are a lot of ways to skin the cat."
Intel has whinged that it has tried talking with the Green Goblin but it is clear that the company is being too "darn clever" for its own good.
Chipzilla has decided to leave the matter to the courts. By the time something comes to market hopefully we'll have some resolution.
If HKEPC's report is accurate Nvidia has the chip ready so now there will be pressure for the legal matters to get sorted out. µ
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if amd could make better cpu's, there would be more platform competition as core2 wouldnt dominate so much, so intel would have to let nvidia make some chipsets to combat amds offering but then amd would be stronger which nvidia doesnt want, oh my i got paradox overload.
Who cares if Nvidia has come up with a sparkly new chipset for Intel? All I think of when I read this article is chips popping off boards. It's what Nvidia does best really, those popping chips. I wouldn't touch this product with a ten-foot pole, even if Intel allows it to see the light of day. This one's a non-starter.
I have a question. Which CPU does this chipset support? If it's for the i7 series, then it has a QPI interface. If it is the i5 series, then it has DMI. However, the differences are huge - one is a full QPI-PCIe bridge w/ lots of PCIe, the other is "just" a southbridge.
No Intel support still you said? Ok so how can they do a chipset without a license? Ohh hope it doesn’t come up like the 680i did. So was new? Quad memory channel support? How many PCI-E lanes eh or maybe PCI-E 3? The return of Sound Storm? Super SLI of something? More please! And I do care if Nvidia comes with a new chipset for Intel. Yeah; I sound like an Nvidiot lol
Gj
Funny how this site went on and on about how nVidia was getting out of the chipset market. I believe Charlie was pushing that idea pretty hard. Oops.
Nvidia chipsets sucks compared to intel ones. Just in integrated graphics, they suck a bit less, because of GeForce. But they are cheaper, maybe they can bring down the price on p55, x58 and future intel chipsets. That's the only reason I'm rooting that nvidia will launch it's nehalem chipsets. If they get screwed in later lawsuits, that's not my concern. LOL.
NVIDIA has many smarter people. They could say it is a chipset but actually only a PCI Express bridges connecting to PCI express lanes that included on Core I5 packages. This combo chip actually not a real "chipset" although with integrated Geforce graphics and all functionality of southbridges. The DMI is too narrow for NVIDIA chip bandwidth guzzle.
A lot of people complaining when nvidia keep SLI to themselves. Not SLI is out. How about Intel releasing QPI and a x86 license?