NVIDIA might die

[praveesh]

Please have a look at the arstechnica article at http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/10/day-of-nvidia-chipset-reckoning-arrives.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

[hessiess]

From reading the article it looks like it just affects integrated cards, I doubt there PCIE cards would be effected.

[3rdalbum]

It affects the nForce chipsets that are used on some motherboards, that provide Nvidia integrated graphics and SLI.

The new Intel-based motherboards can do SLI, so that's not a problem; but Nvidia is halting development on nForce. Any products that are far enough along in development will still be released. If Nvidia's lawsuit says that they have a license to DMI (the bus that talks to the CPU in the new Nehalem architecture) then they can continue developing motherboard chipsets for the new CPUs; or not (Intel plans to put their own integrated graphics processors on the CPU die space, which would shove Nvidia towards the door anyway).

Graphics cards are not affected. Tesla is not affected. Ion and nForce-based motherboards will continue to be available and will continue to be released, but no new designs for Nehalem processors will emerge at least until the lawsuit is settled.