Intel won't let Nvidia make Nehalem chipset

PogMoThoin

Some of You might remember I predicted this might happen Either nvidia must allow sli on other chipsets or they loose badly.

Nvidia's Director or PR, Derek Perez, has told Fudzilla that Intel actually won't let Nvidia make its Nforce chipset that will work with Intel's Nehalem generation of processors.

We confirmed this from Intel’s side, as well as other sources. Intel told us that there won't be an Nvidia's chipset for Nehalem. Nvidia will call this a „dispute between companies that they are trying to solve privately“ but we believe it's much more than that.

We all know that Jensen, Nvidia’s CEO, officially stated that Intel stepped over the edge with its comments about Nvidia. Ever since Nvidia entered the chipset license with Intel, Graphzilla was concerned with Intel's history of competing, and they would be naive not to.

If you are old enough, you will remember that Intel killed VIA’s Pentium chipset business even though VIA had a legitimate license. Intel was cool towards Nvidia until recently, up until the point when Intel realized that graphics card might be used for more than gaming and after Nvidia’s bold decision to keep SLI for itself. It was a tough decision to go against Intel but if Intel got the SLI for its X58 chipset or any previous Intel’s chipset, business will be good as dead, or things would get much tougher then they are.

At this point Intel simply doesn’t want to honour its commitments toward he chipset license deal.

Nvidia has confirmed that it is officially becoming a victim of what VIA, AMD and many other companies have felt for a long time, as Intel tends to repress competition when threatened by superior products and technologies.

Nvidia is not the cleanest player around, but without a Nehelem chipset their chipset business unit might actually suffer some heavy losses, and obviously this is not what Nvidia wants.

Despite the fact that Nvidia has a license, Intel simply decided to cut Nvidia off. Intel is playing dirty as Nvidia is the only company that has something that Intel really wants, and cannot get.

It’s a catch 22 situation as Nvdia wants SLI support for itself while Intel would love to get SLI for its Nehalem chipset but Nvidia refuses to give it away.

Intel was always the bully and they simply won't let Nvidia make Nehalem chipsets, which is not really fair and honest way of playing the game. At least Jensen and the rest of Nvidia are not sitting and waiting for mercy; they are all locked and loaded for the biggest fight of their careers.

Let’s not forget that Nvidia said that “Intel's attempt to unilaterally and publicly interpret a contract between the two companies is unprecedented and unsupportable both legally and commercially.”

This Nvidia vs Intel dispute is simply becoming more interesting by the hour.

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Blazer

This could turn out very badly for Nvidia.
A lot of OEM manuafacturers would be quite glad to see the back of Nvidia/Ati if Intel's Larramee comes up trumps.
My guess is both companies will come to their senses..realise it's in both their interests to deal with each and get on with it.

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Mathew Reilly wrote: »

My guess is both companies will come to their senses..realise it's in both their interests to deal with each and get on with it.

Is it? I don't think so, if Intel gets SLI for its own chipset it will pretty much spell doom for the nvidia chipset. Lets be honest, people only buy the flaky, over heating nvidia chipset for SLI support. They are bad overclockers, seldom stable and seldom released in a condition any better than, at best, a beta hardware.

Intel knows this and the last piece to their Uber domination plan is to get what AMD already has, a graphics company in their pocket that lets them do whatever they want with their technology.

If nvidia does give Intel SLI support, it will effectively be killing off Nvidias motherboard chipset and also killing off AMD attempts to get a level playing field. Intel will then be able to produce crossfire and SLI boards under its own chipset and just blow all competition out of the water. This may sound good on paper, but with no one to really compete with them Intel could just start charging through the roof for their hardware and also stagnating hardware progress, much like what happened for the year after the 8800GTX was released.