Intel won't let Nvidia make Nehalem chipsets

[SRTDodge05]

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.

Fudzilla - Intel won't let Nvidia make Nehalem chipsets

[Cogar]

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

It is interesting that the larger and more successful companies become, the farther they seem to stray from the fundamentals that gave them success in the first place. Microsoft is one example, and Intel and Dell are others--and those are just a few examples in this industry. Perhaps the founders of these companies need to be much more careful regarding how they delegate leadership of their respective companies.

[ctal]

Originally Posted by Cogar

It is interesting that the larger and more successful companies become, the farther they seem to stray from the fundamentals that gave them success in the first place. Microsoft is one example, and Intel and Dell are others--and those are just a few examples in this industry. Perhaps the founders of these companies need to be much more careful regarding how they delegate leadership of their respective companies.

That's an excellent point, Cogar. But I think that the root causes may be systemic as well as being related to choice of leadership. Inevitably, as a company becomes larger and its industry more mature, its growth rate slows. High growth rates are what support high p/e ratios on Wall Street, which in turn are what support stock prices, at least in growth industries. When that starts to happen a company will feel pressured into having to change the fundamentals that made them successful initially, since those fundamentals no longer produce the same large growth rates. In attempting to return to the earlier growth rates via new approaches, those fundamentals get lost. It's not clear to me how that kind of cycle can be fixed systemically.

Regards,
-- Al

[XJ.]

Hmm, no more SLI on Intel chipsets. I have a feeling nVidia will have to fall on it's sword. They have to decide which is core to their business: graphics cards or chipsets.

[johnrr6]

They gotta be sweating....

AMD actually may start to look in better shape if it can just hold on.....

Their dramatic new capabilities with chipsets and IGP may start to really pay off---especially when you consider that almost 80% of the world uses IGP----maybe buying ATI can actually begin to work for them....

and with Intel solid....

And AMD improving....

and both have their own CPU/Chipset platforms....

And both can produce great IGP solutions....

Where does that leave Nvidia.....???

The odd man out if you ask me....

[TopDogZero]

Where does that leave Nvidia.....???

Nvidia starts making CPU's

[XJ.]

Originally Posted by johnrr6

Where does that leave Nvidia.....???

The odd man out if you ask me....

[Jorrell]

The article makes it sound like Intel wants SLI support on the X58 chipset in exchange for letting nvidia create Nehalem chipsets. That sounds like a reasonable deal to me. Both parties get what they want and it leaves consumers with SLI chipsets from two manufacturers which means they can decide based on comparative performance rather than SLI support.

nvidia's chipset business won't do very well without Nehalem at least until AMD takes the lead back on CPUs again. So they basically need it. They both need to get over the hurt feelings and make the deal.

[XJ.]

Actually, Intel gets what it wants. nVidia doesn't (which is to keep SLI to itself as a major selling point of it's chipsets).

[XJ.]

On top of that, it appears as though Intel is reneging on the chipset deal it made with nVidia because, uh, they are the big bully on the block now...