Nvidia Halts Chipset Developments

[NoCaDrummer]

You just have to laugh at this, Nvidia one of the most unethical companies of recent times (in the tech industry) complaining about unfair business tactics.

Not to mention "insider trading" that they continued to do while I was there. Glad I'm out - toxic leadership and overworked employees. No wonder they had "Moore's Law squared" and high turnover.

 

[dbzpic1]

Nvidia should revive Soundstorm and develop a graphics card with Soundstorm integrated using an HDMI port. It'd be very niche'd, but the product would be epic for those that run through a home theater reciever to a television using HDMI (Me). Get your real time 5.1 Dolby AND video from one card, one cable, and it'd all be digital. Nice. The chipset thing though, meh.

 

[ravewulf]

Well this is certainly not a good sign. Intel, why do you have to be so annoyingly difficult?

"Nvidia has stopped developing chipsets for AMD as well" *cries*

 

[cruiseoveride]

Who doesn't have issues with Intel

 

[croc]

I would have liked to have been a 'fly on the wall' when Intel and Nvidia hammered out the SLI licensing agreement, after how many years? Now, Nvidia is crying foul over not being able to license the technology to support QPI...

Paybacks are hell, eh Nvidia?

 

[mitch074]

Well, it seems that AMD had the right idea with 64-bit and buying Ati:

- since they are in a cross-licensing with Intel, if Intel tries to revoke their x86 rights, Intel can't produce i7 (embedded RAM controller) nor Core2 (AMD64 = EM64T) anymore (not that Intel didn't try to have this agreement mitigated);

- since AMD+Ati make both CPUs and chipsets, they can sell a complete solution, even without making chipsets for Intel (Intel is probably counting on Poulsbo now and Larrabee in the future to remove the incentive on getting non-Intel chipsets with IGPs for Intel chips);

- since AMD started advertising complete platforms a while back, most of their chipsets are now made for their own chips (and as far as I know, they have none lined up for i5/i7), so they don't really care;

Seems to me that Intel's strategy is now also to promote fully Intel platforms, and as much as possible to revoke x86 licenses.

Lucky for us, AMD did force enough new tech on Intel to keep the market from becoming a de facto complete monopoly. Now all Nvidia could do, would be to buy an x86 maker and provide complete platforms too.

I wonder how much Via is worth, now...

 

[hixbot]

[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]are you the dumbest schmuck here ? , if nivida dies itnel will replace and and charge ungoddlya mmounts fior their larrabee chips , while amd/ati continue to release fair priced products[/citation]
Lol, I think you're the dumbest schmuck here. Why would AMD charge a fair price, when their only competition charges "ungoddly ammounts"?!

 

[dragonsprayer]

If you know me, you know i used to sign my stuff IFB#1 - second biggest pet piever was sli support pulled from 975X chipset right after nvidia got it 3-4 year old chipset agreement and intel forgot to include sli support agreement. And the was began - let revisit!

reprinted from myself! i give myself permission - list of woes:

First off, nvidia started the war approx 4 years ago, any gamer should demand that nvidia allow physics-x support with ati card and nvidia card

The truth is, the bully is nividia every time and every year. nvidia started the war by denying intel access to SLI for 3-4 years. only after nvidia's own chip set license expired did they allow intel chipsets (x58) to use SLI

even then intel demanded mobo makers use there very hot, and unreliable and unneeded NF200 chip (i think) on mobos of X58. this was unpracticale and the mobo makers complained and nvidia backed off. all that was need was driver support and we all know that while nivida chipsets can be very slightly faster due to pci-e layout and other factors the cost was unnecessary and request was again anti-competitive.

nvidia pulled sli support right when sli 975x chipset was launched around 2005, claim intel intel did not know how to make chipsets
as it turns out nvidia did not know who to make chipsets with very very high failure rates and super hot north bridges. 680i 780i and 790i, each failed due to over heating.

nvidia re brands and re releases the same product, 8800. 9800. 250. They hold back technology like the 200 series until need when ati comes up with a good product. nvidia is most anti cousumer company in the computer market.

nvidia is the cause of 30-50% of all vista problems due too poor driver updating and other problems.

nvidia designed mobos have a very high failure rate to due weak pcb design - rarely discussed.

last week nividia, engages in anti competitive monopolistic business practices by pulling physics-x support from ati/nvidia combo systems

buy ati and send nvidia a message. go intel! go amd! go ati! only buy nvidia if you have too

lets not forget the notebook mess with chipset failures, and the rebranding of vidio cards that where identical mx8800 and mx9800

-while this was last weeks news it is biggest example of how nvidia thumbs its nose at the cousumer. When the R600 or XT2900 video card flopped nvidia jacked the price of their top cards 100%+. When evern ati even gets a little increase market share nvidia pulls some trick.

 

[sonofliberty08]

why don't they continue to develop the chipset for AMD platform ......

 

[sonofliberty08]

did they forget that nForce chipset was rise under AMD platform ?

 

[antisyzygy]

Intel and Nvidia are really screwing themselves over. With AMD\ATI such a strong platform, I dont see why they wouldn't want to work together to compete. Sure, Intel is dominating the business CPU market, but the gaming market will be overtaken by AMD\ATI giving them a stronger foothold on moving into other markets as well. A possible side effect of this is that perhaps people will move to Console gaming at a faster rate, which I hope doesnt happen since I have been a PC gamer since the days of Text Adventures. Being greedy and unfair will cause backlash eventually. Karma can be a cold bitch with a 14 inch strap on.

 

[Milleman]

Nvidia have strangely enough decided to halt the development of chipsets for AMD, which they have not trouble with what so ever. I think that the Intel affair is an excuse for Nvidia to simply withdraw from the chipset market and keeping their faces. The fact is that both Intel and AMD do produce their own chipsets and the market turns thinner for a third chipset company. Intel gave Nvidia the excuse they needed to withdraw!

 

[Guest]

ooh the agreement doesn't cover core processors, that must hurt.

 

[shoshu]

If it wasnt for AMD, we would be paying now 2000$ for f*ukin CELERON lmited crap chips!!!
i have NEVER bought INTEL cpus, and i NEVER will!

If you dont like what Intel does, then DO NOT buy their SHI*T, they will fu*ck themselves eventually!

ONLY AMD!

are ebal sum vi maikata

 

[shoshu]

NVIDIA is making good AMD chipsets though, it would be a shame if it STOPS now. AMD also makes chipsets, so what ? I have chosen 980a now and i am pretty happy with it - its a good product.