NVIDIA stops future development of nForce chipsets until it settles suit with Intel
As of this week, it’s no longer business as usual for NVIDIA as the company has halted the production and development of its nForce line of chipsets until its legal issues with Intel are sorted out. Although the two companies have played well so far in Mac hardware, Intel brought a lawsuit against NVIDIA earlier this year to prevent it from making Intel-compatible chips. Not a very nice move from Intel, but NVIDIA has been making a pretty penny at Intel’s expense. We’re hoping this gets sorted soon because Apple’s use of Intel processors isn’t going to end any time soon, and it’s clear that the Mac line has done well with NVIDIA GPUs. Robert Sherbin of NVIDIA has this to say:
We firmly believe that this market has a long healthy life ahead. But because of Intel’s improper claims to customers and the market that we aren’t licensed to the new DMI bus and its unfair business tactics, it is effectively impossible for us to market chipsets for future CPUs. So, until we resolve this matter in court next year, we’ll postpone further chipset investments.
In the meantime, what’s a chipmaker who won’t be making chips supposed to do?
So, what effect with this have on Ion?
There’s still another platform: AMD/Samsung
Unless I read the press release wrong, they will still be making GPUs. The “chipset” referred to is the Northbridge/Southbridge, specifically the nForce chipsets.
The GeForce line, including the 9600M GPU in Apple computers, will be unaffected by this.
Uhh…do you know what a CPU is versus a GPU or a Chipset? It sure doesn’t sound like it.
1) Nvidia makes GPU’s and Chipsets with embedded GPU’s.
2) Nvidia will still be making GPU’s (where their money is.)
3) Nvidia will still be making Chipsets with embedded GPU’s for the Core line, just not the newer Core i7.
4) Nvidia has never made a CPU, although some have speculated it due to recent hires.
If you’re going to post an article, do your homework please.
Well said. I guess BGR is better in Mobile news than these stuff.
Bryan, did you read the post at all? Because the very first line made it explicitly clear that “the company has halted the production and development of its nForce line of chipsets…” No one said they were going to stop production of graphics processing units, and no one said they make CPUs, either.
I have a big problem with HP INTEL AND NVADIA. i wasted $1600 on a computer to have a blank screen. hp wants me to pay $400 to fix it and upgrade my bios so the fan cools faster..lol they are blaming it on a faulty chip that they are aware of but isnt really doing anything about…but asking for more money.