DigiTimes is reporting that Nvidia plans to trade some of its GPU technology to Intel in exchange for cooperation with the chip giant, according to sources at motherboard makers. The sources said Nvidia has had discussions with Intel and has already reached several agreements for cooperation. Details of the agreements remain unknown but executives of Nvidia recently met with the Intel's partners in Taiwan to explain the company's plan in the motherboard market. With Intel pushing its GPU development, it makes sense for the chip giant to want more graphics technology. Nvidia undoubtedly knows of Intel’s plans – should the company be making such deals?
News source: DigiTimes
News source: DigiTimes
And NVIDIA have been putting out horrid drivers for almost everything, and have left their GeForce FX series customers in the dark until this summer. Besides, GMA 900 probably wouldn't handle Aero Glass particularily well.
Probably not, it's not like Intel isn't in loads of IP deals with other companies, and even with AMD from the old x86 case a long time ago. But what I figure would happen is, in exchange for gfx tech, nvidia would probably either ask for better chipset or tech on the newer smaller die/transister process intel is ahead on. Right now, nVidia as making GPUs at, what was it, 85nm? or 80nm. That's a long way from the 45nm Intel is at right now fab wise. And with gfx cards getting bigger and hotter and more power hungry, it's like the P4 all over again.
From the postings I've seen, I guess a lot of people are still having problems with drivers for Geforce cards in
Vista?
I'll be blunt; Nvidia's drivers have not been developed or supported like they should be. Their post-RTM support cycle ends much too early. Nvidia rushes the hardware out the door much too soon, way before the drivers are really ready, and so the drivers developers don't have the time they need to make the kind of quality drivers that the consumer expects. The whole process is much too rushed. Nvidia's executives need to get a new perspective on product development cycles, and hopefully that's part of what this business deal with Intel is about.
Anyways, that's my two cents.
They were the ones who said Leopard would be delayed and all these Apple fanboys went nuts calling it all lies. Then it turned out to be true and a lot of those Apple fanboys shut up
No...Digitimes WAS wrong about the delay. They may have stated the delay correctly (a lucky guess perhaps?), but their reasoning wasn't even close.
Last edited by Chad on 08 May 2007 - 17:25
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