14 DAY TRIAL // More than one year ago, there were reports on the Internet that claimed NVIDIA would soon announce it would get out of the global chipset market, a claim that was never confirmed by the company. Later on, NVIDIA announced that it had entered a legal dispute with Intel, the world's leading chip maker, according to which the licensing partnership between the two companies wouldn't allow the former to develop chipsets for the latter's upcoming Nehalem-based products. On that note, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker has officially announced today that it will “postpone further chipset investments” for Intel's products.
There have been a series of reports on the Internet recently, related to the status of NVIDIA's MCP business segment, for which reason the “green goblin” has decided to come out with an official statement. According to Igor Stanek, Product PR for NVIDIA's Central Europe region, the company will continue to “innovate integrated solutions for Intel's FSB architecture,” as this is a segment that the company believes to have a strong future.
However, “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 for Intel DMI CPUs,” the statement said.
NVIDIA has taken the opportunity to talk about the success it has seen with its line of GeForce 9400M and ION products, both of which have been adopted by a number of leading companies, including Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, ASUS and others, while other companies are still expected to roll out new products based on said NVIDIA products. In addition, according to the chip maker, we should soon see “innovative products” that the company plans to launch in the months ahead, despite Intel's actions.