The company has delayed its technology until further notice

Mar 22, 2008 12:10 GMT  ·  By

Nvidia is reportedly delaying the introduction of the Hybrid SLI technology, as the drives to support it are not finished yet. If you are hardly waiting to pair your GeForce 8200 with another GPU, you'd better shift your attention to something else until the drivers are officially released.

According to reports, Nvidia officials have sent a note to its manufacturing partners earlier this week, that announces the delay of the company's Hybrid SLI technology. According to the notification, the company is postponing the technology mostly because the driver's unit has not finished implementing its software support.

"We are still experiencing delays in getting the kits sent as the product is experiencing delays, drivers are being fine-tuned and sales tools are being finalized," reads the notification.

The Hybrid SLI technology offers users of low-end and mid-range graphics cards a new method of improving the graphics performance by pairing up a discrete and an integrated GPU to work as a single unit. Hybrid SLI is based on two of Nvidia's next-generation technologies, called GeForce Boost and HybridPower. The GeForce Boost allows single discrete Nvidia graphics card to "team up" with an integrated graphics core situated on a Nvidia-powered motherboard.

The second piece of the puzzle is the HybridPower technology, that adjusts the graphics speed, power consumption and the fan's noise in such a way to match the system's workload.

When running graphics-intensive applications, the HybridPower technology would deliver high amounts of graphic computing power, and thus, would increase the power consumption. When running word processing software or multimedia players, the technology would switch to a reduced-power mode.

The report also claims that the Hybrid SLI technology will start shipping in sampling units in the second half of April, with retail availability slated for May or June. Nvidia representatives were not available for comments immediately.