nVidia trying to REALLY win the OEM market

[Wombat]

nVidia motherboards, ick. I hope they fare as well as intel did with video cards. I hate it when companies go for market monopoly.
http://www.ebns.com/story/OEG20000918S0026

[isochar]

Look at the bright side...
it means that laptops will soon have the possibility of having a GF2mx instead of ATI

[Pace]

Why doesn't Matrox get a deal with Intel? The i850 chipset would be a great companion for a G850 .

And have an AGP slot for the Fusion functionality .

Paul.

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[Wombat]

i850?

[Pace]

It's as real as the G850 Wombat .

Paul.

[Wombat]

Pace: You have no idea.

[cjolley]

Could be the begining of the downward slide for NVidia.
Diamond came out with a pretty nice motherboard right before they slipped out of the graphics card spotlight a few years ago.
chuck

[dZeus]

often a company goes wrong by either having a gigantic lead over the competition, which effectively can slow down all development of new products to a halt, and / or by focusing on things they are not 'best of their field' in.

Since both situations apply to nVidia, this could turn out very bad for them... of course these results don't have to happen at all...

[DataOrb]

Imagine this:
in half a year, nVidia will lunch mainboards with Integrated GF2 Technolegy, Asus, Abit and AOpen adopt it making 150$ GF2 Powerd Mainboards.
All goes well, and these mainboards are a hit for casual gamers and the oh-so-large OEM market.
After Nvidia's Next video technolegy, (The NV25) is a hit in the Retail market, and the MS X-Box is the leading gaming consule on the world, Nvidia decides to try other markets as well.
they start making sound cards.
"Nvidia SoundForce X7".
Creative puts up a fight with thier new line of Live! cards but Nvidia says it will stop providing Creative with graphic chips for thier boards, creative stands down.
After Nvidia has taken yet another market by storm, they decide it's not enough, so they start making graphic cards as well and not only chips.
of course bt now they are not allowing other manufactores (such as Creative or ELSA) to make graphic cards with Nvidia chipsets on them.
But wait! it does not stop there! after each computer sold in the OEM and retail market has an Nvidia Chipset on it's mainboard, an Nvidia Graphics and sound processor, Nvidia decides they should go and make thier own API. and since most of the market is running on Nvidia cards by now, game developers will have to adopt it.
and that is only the start!
NVIDIA PDA's, Monitors, Keyboards, Mice, DVD's, NIC's, Modems, SCSI Cards, Printers, Scanners, Speakers and even an Operating System....
if you folow the mid-early years of the modern computer market (notibly the 70's and 80's) you might notice that Nvidia are starting to act -more-or-less- like Apple or MS in that time... if Nvidia plans to make mainboard chipsets works, then I think an Nvidia-Microsoft combination might be imminent... just like what happend with Apple and MS in the 80's, but this time it will be Nvidia that will come on the top...

that's creepy... but might just happen...

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[Pace]

What do you mean Wombat? I know the G850 doesn't exist (well, not for sure ) but is the i850 not a replacement for the i840? Or maybe even a higher up version (quad servers etc).

Paul.

[Pace]

What do you mean Wombat? I know the G850 doesn't exist (well, not for sure ) but is the i850 not a replacement for the i840? Or maybe even a higher up version (quad servers etc).

Paul.

[Greebe]

HICCUP!

Pace please delete 3 of those posts.

[Wombat]

Sorry Pace. Three words:

N.
D.
A.

I just thought maybe stuff went public so I could discuss it.

[Greebe]

cjolley, which MB would that be your talking about?

[isochar]

Here's a link to the latest "almost confirmed" specs for the NV20:
http://guru3d.com/news.shtml#newsitem969544176,19871,

Damn impressive. Looks like the X-box is going to have some serious hardware with the NV25.