Nvidia’s High-End Chipset Under Fire for Problems
Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company’s latest premium-class chipset.
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16.12.2006 Intel to launch Calpella notebook platform in 3Q09
Intel's next-generation notebook platform (Calpella) is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2009.
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5.8.2008Intel to launch Calpella notebook platform in 3Q09
ntel's next-generation notebook platform (Calpella) is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2009. As with other Nehalem generation
products, Capella will abandon the current northbridge and southbridge chipset arrangement and transfer many typical northbridge components to the CPU
package. A single integrated chipset codenamed Ibex Peak-M will coordinate other features on the motherboard, according to sources at notebook
makers.
Ibex Peak-M will support Intel's next-generation notebook CPUs (Clarksfield and Auburndale), both of which include an on-die
DDR3 memory controller. Auburndale will also have a graphics core integrated in the CPU package.
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05.08.2008Intel planning Montevina Refresh notebook platform for April
Intel is planning to introduce the Montevina Refresh for notebooks in April, according to sources at notebook makers. The company will launch two
processors along with the new platform, the Core 2 Duo T9900 and P8800.
For the chipset segment, Intel is planning to launch the GM47 for
the high-end in the first quarter of 2009, while in July or August the company will launch the GL43 for entry-level notebooks and GS40 for small form
factor (SFF) PC. The GM55 mobile chipset (Ibexpeak-M) for Intel's next-generation Calpella platform for notebooks is scheduled to launch by July
or August next year.
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23.10.2008Intel's Next-Gen Centrino Timed With Windows 7
Intel plans to release its sixth generation of the popular mobile platform known as Centrino just in time for the October release of Windows 7.
The platform, codenamed "Calpella," will be the launch of Intel's Nehalem architecture on laptops.
An Intel
spokesperson declined to comment, but a source familiar with the plans confirmed that Intel will have Calpella-based products in stores for Windows
7's launch on Oct. 22.
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28.08.2009Four Years Later, Alereon's Wireless Device Chipset Tries to Be 'Universal'
This morning, chipset Alereon
announced its own attempt at a
brute-force solution to
dilemma of the lack of a
global standard for wireless
device connectivity. It will
produce a UWB chipset that
supports all 14 of the
world's known frequency bands
simultaneously...
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19.06.2007Intel beefs up 955X chipset
with dual-graphics capability
Chicago (IL) - A
cross-licensing agreement with
Nvidia is beginning to kick in
for Intel. The company plans
to introduce a new high-end
version of the 955X chipset
which will enable users to run
two Nvidia or ATI graphics
cards in
tandem.
Ne
ws has reached us that Intel
is getting more serious about
the gaming crowd. While
Nvidia's nForce SLI chipset
has been the only technology
for Intel users to integrate
two Nvidia graphic cards in
their system until now, there
will be another option early
next
year.
According to
sources, Intel will then
release the 975X chipset,
essentially a 955X version
with dual x8 capability and
supports for two GeForce 6600
or higher cards. In terms of
performance and price, the
chipset will be positioned
clearly above the 955X, but
keep some distance to
Nvidia's recently launched
nForce SLI x16 chipset. ..
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06.09.2005Intel Finally Hits Launch Date for X38 Express Chipset
Intel today launched its X38 Express chipset, which DailyTech has been covering for a while now. The chipset was previously known by its codename,
Bearlake, and first surfaced last year.
In October 2006 DailyTech broke the news that Intel would release six versions of its
Bearlake chipset and that one of those six versions, the Bearlake-X, would be the X38 Express.
The story behind the Intel X38
Express has been one of numerous missed launch dates. At first, it seemed that X38 would launch in time for Computex Taipei in June. Intel then set
an official launch date of September 23 for the chipset. That launch date, however, was pushed back yet again.
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11.10.2007Intel Prepares X38 Express Launch
Intel officially set its
performance embargo on its
upcoming X38 Express chipset
for September 23. Motherboards
based on the X38 Express
chipset should show up in
retail in early September,
according to motherboard
vendors. The September 23
non-disclosure lift date only
applies to reviews and
performance numbers for the
X38 Express chipset. The
situation will be similar to
the P35 Express chipset
launch, where motherboards
were available before its
Computex 2007 launch
announcement and NDA lift
date.
The
new chipset is a member of the
Bearlake family, which saw its
initial debut with the G33 and
P35 Express variants last
June. Intels X38 Express
succeeds the 975X Express that
made its debut with Intels
Pentium D Presler processors.
Although the Intel 975X
Express launched in late 2005,
the chipset shared basics with
Intels 945 and 955X Express
chipset families. Intel
decided not to refresh the
975X Express with a Broadwater
variant and held out for
Bearlake.
Intels X38 Express
introduces PCIe 2.0 support to
the LGA775 platform. PCIe 2.0
offers greater bandwidth over
the existing PCIe standard “
up to four gigatransfers per
second, or GT/s, with the 20%
encoding overhead accounted
for. The chipset also supports
dual full-speed PCIe x16 slots
for ATI CrossFire multi-GPU
technology. There is no
mention of NVIDIA SLI support...
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16.08.2007From LG to 4G: The first LTE phone chipset
At a research facility in Anyang, South Korea this morning, LG unveiled its Long Term Evolution (LTE) chipset, which it claimed is the first designed
to provide mobile handsets with 4G connectivity...
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10.12.2008Chipset Designers Flee from Via Technologies
Via Technologies, a struggling designer of chipsets and developer of central processing units (CPUs), has reportedly lost an executive who was in
charge of the companys chipset business along with a group of core-logic developers. The resignation of an exec spurred further rumours regarding the
chipset business of Via.
Chewei Lin, vice president and general manager of Vias platform business, according to a news-story at
DigiTimes web-site, will resign from his post and take around 40
engineers from Via chipset research team to join integrated circuit designer ASMedia Technology, a subsidiary of Asustek Computer.
According to Vias web-site, the company currently employs about 2000 of people, 70% of which, or 1400, are engineers, several hundreds of which
(about 600, according to claims made by an S3 Graphics executive two years ago). While 40 chipset designers may not be a significant number for Via,
considering that the company still has to sign a cross-license agreement with Intel Corp. to develop and sell chipsets for Intels chips in 2008, the
future of Vias chipset business looks gloomy...
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07.09.2007Infineon chipset may be cause of iPhone woes
An analyst has stated that the cause of the unusually high number of dropped calls some Apple iPhone users are experiencing may be down to the
phone's Infineon chipset. Apple user forums have been full of complaints about the dropped calls but Apple itself has stayed quiet on the
topic.
However, Nomura analyst Richard Windsor wrote in a research note that the problem is likely to be down to the 3G chipset from German
manufacturer Infineon. "We believe that these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain that
Infineon is the 3G supplier," Windsor wrote in the report dated 12 August.
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18.08.2008Intel to delay P45 chipset to mid-June
Intel is delaying the launch schedule of its P45 chipset from originally in May to mid-June, according to sources at motherboard makers.
The delay of the chipset is due to problems over compatibility between the chipset's PCI Express x16 port and graphics cards, noted the sources,
adding that Intel has notified them that the problem should be solved and ready to launch 2-4 weeks behind the original launch schedule.
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28.03.2008Intel's New Nehalem & Tukwila Platforms in Detail
Intel is moving to IT usage
based segmentation for future
Nehalem and Tukwila platforms
in H2 2008.
The
current Itanium segment will
be renamed as Mission Critical
(MC), Enterprise MP to be
known as Expandable (EX),
Volume DP to be known as
Efficient Performance (EP) and
lastly Entry UP to be called
Entry (EN). For MC segment,
Itanium 2 platform (Itanium 2
9000 series + E8870 chipset)
will be succeeded by Boxboro
MC platform made up of Tukwila
MC and Boxboro MC chipset. For
EX segment, Caneland Platform
(Xeon 7000 series + 7300
chipset) will be succeeded by
45nm Dunnington Nehalem based
processor.
For EP
2-socket segment, Bensley
platform (Xeon 5000 series +
5000P Blackford chipset) will
be succeeded by Tylersburg EP
Platform made up of Nehalem EP
and Tylersburg-36D chipset and
for EP single socket segment,
Garlow platform (Xeon 3000
series + 3210 chipset) will be
succeeded by Tylersburg EP
Platform made up of Nehalem EP
and Tylersburg-36S chipset.
For EN segment, Cranberry Lake
Platform (Xeon 5000 series +
5100 chipset) will be
succeeded by Tylersburg-EN
Platform made up of Nehalem EP
and Tylersburg-24D chipset.
All the chipsets will be
featuring QuickPath
technology, the next
generation system interconnect
used on Nehalem and Tukwila
-based platforms which is
commonly known as CSI.
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16.07.2007Nvidia denies quiting chipset business?
Nvidia has released an official statement refuting the
recent story claiming that the company is planning to quit its chipset business. Michael Jong, senior director of corporate
marketing for Nvidia indicated that Nvidia has no intention of getting out of the chipset business and that the report is completely groundless.
But according to
The Inquirer,
DigiTimes got its facts correct.
Just over a week ago, Nvidia's maximum leader, Jen-Hsun Huang, held a meeting with Taiwanese
mobo partners. He directly asked them if there was a reason why Nvidia should stay in the chipset business. You could hear the crickets chirp.
In mainland China. No one came up with a reason, so the division was officially killed, and the teams will be rolled into GPU projects.
The INQUIRER has talked to people who were at the meeting, and they confirmed the reports, and are dead convnced that Nvidia chipsets
are a thing of the past.
What’s your take on the rumours? Are Nvidia going the way of Via? Or do you think the best is yet to come
from Nvidia's chipset division?
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04.08.2008VIA heralds end of third-party PC chipset biz
VIA has tacitly confirmed that it's quitting the PC chipset business, claiming that there's no longer a third-party chipset market worth the
name. Richard Brown, VIA's marketing chief, told Custom PC: "We believed that ultimately the third-party chipset market would disappear... That
has indeed come to pass."
VIA's perspective is that with Intel producing almost all the chipsets used with Intel processors, and with
AMD increasingly the prime supplier of system logic for its own processors, there's a rapidly narrowing space for third-party chipset makers. In
VIA's case, it appears it has decided the gap is now too narrow, and it's getting out. At the very least, it saves it having to go to the
expense of licensing Intel's new QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) bus, set to debut with the giant's 'Nehalem' CPUs.
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11.08.2008NEC Ships Hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD Chipset
NEC Electronics revealed to
the Japanese trade publication
AV Watch today that it is now
shipping an LSI chipset that
incorporates all the logic
necessary for manufacturers to
produce either HD DVD or
Blu-ray players and recorders.
But does this mean the era of
hybrid equipment is finally at
hand?..
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10.10.2006NVIDIA respond to Intel chipset court filing
Earlier today, NVIDIA responded to a court filing by Intel, regarding a chipset license agreement. The agreement, made 4 years ago, was that NVIDIA
would be able to use its chipsets with Intel based motherboards. In exchange for this, NVIDIA would provide Intel with graphics "innovations" such
as SLI and Hybrid Power. Now, with the Core i7 range out (which feature integrated memory controllers) and details out on the future Westmere
processors (which integrate more features, in particular, the graphics controller), Intel has claimed that the existing agreement no longer applies.
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19.02.2009New AMD Chipset Integrates ATI Logic
This morning, AMD announced
its desktop-level integrated
chipset combining its designs
for systems and peripheral bus
controllers with ATI's
graphics logic, all in one
package. AMD already has the
lead in components for
value-priced systems, and
ATI's logic may help it
maintain that lead. But as
Intel has proven over the
years, that effort might not
always bear fruit...
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01.03.2007Testing Intel's X48 chipset: ASUS P5E3 Premium WiFi review
The upcoming Intel X48 chipset has been a poorly kept secret, but then again there has been little to be secretive or excited about. This is because
the X48 is nothing more than a slightly updated version of the existing X38 chipset, which is a solid offering that nevertheless is not a whole lot
better than the less pricey P35. So why not, let's blame Intel for making great mainstream chipsets that perform like its cream of the crop.
And while the X48 chipset is yet to be officially released, we have already seen a number of motherboards that use it and are just waiting for
the announcement to go mass production. Intel should be unveiling the X48 chipset later this month bringing official support for 1600MHz FSB (Front
Side Bus) processors and DDR3-1600 memory, but other than that picking a difference between the X38 and X48 chipsets is near impossible. So don't
expect Intel or any of its partners to make a big fuss about it. The X48 is an evolutionary step that we believe may not come at any price premium
over current X38 products, with that in mind today we will be looking at the ASUS P5E3 Premium WiFi-AP @n motherboard, the company’s first X48
motherboard.
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08.03.2008Nvidia to launch nForce 790i chipset in 2Q
Nvidia is planning to launch the next generation nForce 790i chipset in the second quarter this year. The chipset adopts Nvidia's C73 northbridge
and MCP55 southbridge, and will support Intel processors with FSB up to 1600MHz, according to sources at motherboard makers.
The chipset
will also feature 3-way SLI and Hybrid SLI technology and support DDR3 memory. Motherboard makers generally expect DDR3 memory pricing will start to
drop in the third quarter of 2008. The nForce 790i is positioned by Nvidia as a high-end product and so the motherboard should attract high-end gamers
who will be willing to pay a premium for DDR3 memory.
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29.01.2008VIA merges chipset division under CPU, says paper
VIA Technologies merged its PC chipset division under that of CPUs in the fourth quarter of last year. Going forward the division will mainly focus on
supporting the company's own-brand CPU platforms and will slowly phase out of the third-party chipset market, according a Chinese-language Apply
Daily report citing sources at the company.
The company will still provide support from AMD platforms while continuing the support older
Intel products that are not impacted by patent issues, the paper noted.
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