IT News & Technology update

As we indicated in the previous number of members, Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer NVIDIA has seen better days. Partly responsible for this is the fact that AMD graphics of a subsidiary, ATI, succeeded in providing us with two of the best video cards currently on the market. That put enough pressure on the green company to slash prices for its new GeForce card, less than one month after the official release.

However, not all, because the future does not seem to be very light on NVIDIA, if we are to believe, is posted on the website of HKEPC. According to him, it seems that the producer of the upcoming chipsets will not support any of Intel yet to be released processors. This includes Bloomfield and even Nehalem range of Kingston becomes - which ultimately means that the forthcoming high-end computer systems will be built on nForce listed companies. This, in turn, becomes the NVIDIA lost an important share of the market.

But even so, every cloud has a silver lining, and the same goes here too. According to the aforementioned website of X58-based platforms are likely to support SLI configurations. That is, if motherboard manufacturers are ready to integrate into nForce 200 chip in their projects. This will enable future systems to support the next generation NVIDIA GeForce card, but this will be the company, a participation as far as from high-end desktop computer systems go.

The only problem with this solution is that the nForce 200 - based mobos will end little pricier, than standard boards. This is because a nForce chip costs for US $ 30 and the same layout of printed circuit boards will probably not be suitable for both SLI and non-SLI-enabled X58 companies. So even if the motherboard leaders decided to integrate nForce chip in their products, it will be consumers who will decide if the upcoming SLI-companies are even worth it.