08.10.2008 08:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

NVidia to Stop Chipset Development – Future MacBook with NVidia Chipset

While a persisting rumor indicates that the future MacBook could use a NVidia chipset, much more powerful than the Intel GMA currently available, another rumor announces than NVidia might stop chipset development next year. This might be linked to several parameters: - With the Nehalem, Intel completely modified its controller architecture on motherboard, especially for memory management now directly supervised by the CPU. If performance wise it is a huge gain, in term of design and manufacturing it is more difficult to carry out. - AMD pursues a similar strategy, and the acquisition of ATI, make it difficult to justify for NVidia to develop AMD-specific dedicated chipset, aka nForce. - Last but not least, the emerging and promising GPGPU might make the current field of GPU completely modified. NVidia will need very powerful chips to make the difference with Intel, a performance level which has nothing to do with the one available from chipset. If the NVidia chipset in fu

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