nVidia gave up
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainbo...dia_We_Are_Not_Building_Chipsets_Anymore.html
So Fusion still needs separate bridges (i.e. no Northbridge integrated to the CPU)? Or what is the 3rd chip then?
Spin and games back and forth. Nvidia said it was giving up on chipsets right when Intel made the move, but Apple released several Macs with a new Nvidia GPU and chipset. The bottom line is investors shouldn't count on Nvidia making more chipsets for Apple. However, if you tell me Nvidia doesn't want to provide chipsets for these four Macs, I will tell you you're full of it.
Quite honestly, anti-competitive moves like Intel's move here is meant to make the competitor cease production until it can catch up and has the competitive advantage. If another year goes by and Intel can keep improving its IGP while Nvidia cannot spend any money on research and development of future chipsets, then Intel wins the game. Nvidia is simply saying it cannot spend the money on hopes and dreams and no guarantees. In addition, without spending the money, Intel definitely catches up and it may have too big of an advantage at that point. I would bet money Nvidia still wants the business and has devoted a lot of money towards attempting to settle this sooner rather than later.
Intel executives are complete trash in my opinion. As human beings and more importantly customers, we should be appalled and pray that someone steps in and does the right thing before it's too late for Nvidia. As consumers we are much better off with competition, and Intel knows it cannot win a fair fight, and it wants ALL of Apple's business. It's disgusting, and I would get away from Intel as fast as possible if I were Apple.
I hope Nvidia hasn't completely given up, but spin like this has to be made to assure investors that it knows exactly where it's going and it's not dependent upon something that may never happen. Let's all hope Intel stops its disgusting practices, or the justice department or another body stops this sooner rather than later as we all lose if we cannot have Nvidia chipsets and GPUs in the next MBA updates. If that doesn't happen, I pray Apple does the right thing and abandons Intel and publicly displays disgust over its practices. We are much better off with AMD CPUs, GPUs, and chipsets than we are with a complete Intel non-solution.
Like Scottsdale posted earlier, I am worried that there is little or no chance for Apple, Intel, and NVIDIA to come to an agreement that would allow NVIDIA to make integrated GPUs for Intel's i series chips. The last best hope appears to be either the Justice Department making Intel stop its anticompetitive behavior or a private antitrust suit forcing Intel to stop.
By the way, I was delighted to see that the mods did their thing and took down the appallingly offensive post by the cretin who called posters to this thread "retards." The actions of Intel notwithstanding to the contrary, justice really does prevail sometimes.
I get disgusted with people who call others "retards" as the word is being used in a truly disgusting way. Most people aren't aware of how offensive it can be, as they hear and read others using the word like that all of the time; however, that doesn't make it right, proper, or acceptable.
I have a daughter who was born with a myelin disorder in her brain. She is completely normal in mental ability, but she has problems with control of her muscular system. Her eyes wobble, so she is legally blind, her hands shake as though she has Parkinsons disease, and she cannot walk and uses a powered chair. She is the kindest, sweetest, and most loving person in the world, and it makes me sick when kids have heard the word used improperly by their parents and others and call her "retarded." It really makes the use of "retard" in any form disgusting.
I understand not everyone is aware of their uses, but as people we owe the world better and we need to treat people better. I often display opinions about companies, products, and etc, and people take it as a personal attack. I don't get it. People feel it's a personal attack on them if I don't want a 10-hour battery in my MBA, yet the same types of people squeal out "retard" and other offensive language attacking people all of the time.
Cannot we all just recognize that we're all not as privileged as others, and maybe if we walked a mile in another persons shoes we could realize the hurt and pain abusive language causes in others less fortunate? And also it's not a personal attack when someone attacks a company's products, desires of future products and such... maybe people should be more aware of the world around them. In any case, I find the use of the word "retard, retarded," and other variations disgusting and something we can do without on these forums.
I have been banned for calling someone a "onetwo" where one equals fan and two equals boi, yet I have seen it over 10,000 times on these forums with no banning, and you can see it too. Just go to google and search the domain macrumors.com, for the different uses of "onetwo" where one equals fan and two equals boi; you can also see the word "retard" not being removed many times... do a search if you want to see it for yourself.
But in this one instance, someone did the right thing, and I appreciate it.
