Nvidia to quit chipset business!!?

[Fireblade]

Nvidia has decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business, sources close to the situation 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.

The motherboard makers' response? Silence.

It is still early days and not all the facts are known at the time of writing, but it is believed Nvidia will transfer the chipset team to working on GPU projects.
On the motherboard makers' side, some makers have already canceled upcoming high-end motherboard projects based on the nForce 7-series chipset.:eek:

Source (/Sauce :D): Nvidia to quit chipset business (http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080801VL203.html)


Wonder if this has anything to do with the ongoing graphics chip problems, which are being talked about all over the 'net?

[latency]

Intel has made quite an impact these past few years with their integrated graphics, since many laptops are all C2D with X3100 media graphics... the enthusiasts are using expansion cards anyway, and performance laptops have dedicated graphics cards...

I can see how they're getting displaced from this market tbh...

[_stu_]

I cant say i'm not happy about this tbh. The sheer volume of problems I've seen with 680i, then both 780 and 790 just isnt fun. nVidia have always made fantastic GPUs, but ever since nForce4 the quality and reliability just hasnt been there. With product development cycles getting shorter and shorter, along with a strained relationship with intel, I think this has been coming for a while.....

Stu

[razer121]

hm..my 680i mobo has never given me problems...i personaly think nvidia should carry on and just improve....i mean look at there gpus...surely they wont struggle...?