Rumor: NVIDIA to abandon chipset business? The company denies.

Digitimes suggests that NVIDIA is likely to abandon its chipset business, because there’s a lack of support from motherboard partners (Foxconn, Gigabyte and DFI are allegedly on the list), especially for the 790i chipset:

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. (Digitimes)

I’m having a hard time to believe that this is true, but who knows. Being a chipset manufacturer also helps NVIDIA’s GPU business. Think about it without the chipset business, the company would never have had deals like the first Xbox and could not pull off SLI as we know it. This would be a shocker, and obviously that would debunk any Apple/NVIDIA chipset deal. Officially, NVIDIA denies leaving this business and says that this is a “complete fabrication”. I would tend to agree with the latter version. The chipset business represents hundreds of millions of dollars and was profitable the last time I checked.If the problems were real, the companywould fixthem, butI just can’t picture NVIDIA saying “it’s too hard to build, we give up”.

Disclosure: I worked for NVIDIA until August of last year. This post is not based on any insider information. It is just my personal opinion, as I react to the breaking news.

Filed in Computers >Rumors >Top Stories..

Discover more from Ubergizmo

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading