Nvidia CEO says no to Intel integrated chipsets

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JEN HSUN Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, said his firm has no plans to enter the Intel IGP market.

After two years of development, Nvidia just announced and started shipping yjr world's only Shader Model 3.0 integrated graphic codenamed C51 and it claims that it's sold 1.5 million of those AMD only cores already.

But, when, asked Nvidia's CEO said loud and clear that his that company doesn't have any plans for Intel integrated chips as he believes that it's impossible to compete with Intel on integrated chipset prices.

It's funny to hear that as we know that Nvidia was working on the C60 chipset with the same graphic core as C51, but for Intel's Pentium CPUs but it turns out that the company changed its mind about that project. C60 is no longer on Nvidia's roadmaps. It disappeared probably just after Intel chose ATI to help it out with its chipset shortage.

Jensen underlined that Nvidia is doing really well on the AMD ftony and wants to capture as much as possible of 25 million pieces IGP chipset market in this market in 2006. Still Nvidia won't compete for probably at least the three times bigger Intel chipset IGP market. The problem is that Intel owns that market big time. So if you want Nvidia graphics on Pentium with integrated 6150 core into the north bridge, want on, because it simply won't happen. You have a choice to get either Intel's 915G/945G or ATI's Xpress 200 IPG.

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