Thread: nVidia to make entry level LGA 1156 chipset

In the early part of last year there was gossip that nVidia would not be building any new-fangled chipsets. According to the report at the time nVidia asked a group of OEMs if there was any basis for nVidia to carry on; subsequent to a few minutes of silence nVidia made the choice to drop out of the chipset market.

This report seemed to be definite when it was declared that nVidia would certify their SLI technology to Intel for the X58 chipset. This would not be in the normal NF200 bridge chip, but by in fact enabling native SLI support for the X58. A few months later Intel declares that nVidia's present licensing did not cover up new-fangled CPUs with an included memory controller. Things were not looking superior for everything new in the mainboard world from the green players.

All that may be altering though as there are now report of an LGA 1156 chipset from nVidia. Nothing like the past where nVidia would strike in the high-end as well as enthusiast marketplace, the innovative boards emerge to be all entry level with an IGP that has its individual memory bus (64 bit).

This is an attractive part to go into as Intel has plans for 1156 CPU with their individual IGPs in them in the near prospect. It is completely feasible that nVidia is banking on poor Intel graphics to drive customers to select up an nVidia product with an advanced GPU in the similar way that ION was better to Intel's Atom platform. The latest chipset could be accessible in Q1-2010.