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Friday, October 9, 2009
Hardware

Nvidia’s Nforce Chipset Is Dead In The Water

12:29AM Matt Buchanan | I used an Nvidia Nforce-based motherboard in the first computer I ever built, so I’m a little sad to see that Nvidia’s freezing all development on their Nforce chipset because of licensing issues with Intel, primarily over whether or not Nvidia’s licence covers chipsets for Nehalem-based processors. Nvidia’s not developing new chipsets for AMD’s processors, either. Lame-o. [PC Mag]
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Hardware

Nvidia, Intel Kiss and Make Up: Bloomfield CPU to Have SLI Tech After All

6:54PM Kit Eaton | Intel and Nvidia’s cold war over the discrete and integrated graphics chipsets that sit inside our computers seems to have at least partially thawed. Nvidia’s announced that “it will be bringing the power and performance of its SLI® multi-GPU technology to Intel’s upcoming line of Bloomfield CPUs.” Upcoming SLI motherboards will have the nForce 200 SLI processor alongside Bloomfield CPUs, and Tylersburg (X58) chipsets, which should come as good news to gamers with top-end gaming PC setups. Nvidia’s press release below (including some interesting “customer viewpoints”) More »
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Hardware

Intel and Nvidia At War, Gamers Could Get Screwed

11:00AM Matt Buchanan | Sure, Nvidia’s crashing into the mobile market Intel wants to dominate. And Intel is running into discrete graphics (not to mention ruling with integrated graphics). But you know, it’s friendly right? Wrong. It’s total war. Nvidia’s continuing to hold out licensing SLI support for Intel’s boards, notably its next-gen Tylersburg chipset for the Nehalem CPUs. And Intel hasn’t yet licensed Nvidia to make an nForce chipset that’ll support Nehalem, citing a “disagreement” over the terms. If they don’t make nice, gamers will have to pick between having SLI or the latest and greatest Intel processors, meaning they get screwed either way. Man, where’s AMD when you need them? [Maximum PC] More »
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