nVidia to Release Mobile nForce Chipset.

[AGodspeed]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1012534854

We do not know a lot about the mobile nForce, but the rumors claim that it will be made with 0.13micron technology, equipped with GeForce2 Go graphics chip, feature up to 6 USB-ports, Dolby Digital sound, modem and LAN.

An nVidia roadmap has the product "Crush-Mobile" positioned for Q4 2002. Crush is the codename for nForce.

A couple comments...

This seems like it will be a relatively minor entrance into yet another market segment for nVidia. However, it seems that nVidia is by no means going to let ATi take a break. With the NV17-M architecture and now this mobile nForce chipset, ATi is going to have to execute well to keep their huge mobile market share in place. I wonder what the specs of ATi's P4-M chipset will look like...

 

[AGodspeed]

And a little bump before bed.

 

[Novgrod]

good news: good integrated stuff, good performance, good help for AMD in the mobile market.

bad news: the Nforce hasn't really been a resounding success (as per my understanding) in getting your compaqs and your HPs to sign onto the bandwagon. Maybe nvidia won't have that much success with third parties and the mobile nforce either.

so tired

 

[AGodspeed]

<< good news: good integrated stuff, good performance, good help for AMD in the mobile market.

bad news: the Nforce hasn't really been a resounding success (as per my understanding) in getting your compaqs and your HPs to sign onto the bandwagon. Maybe nvidia won't have that much success with third parties and the mobile nforce either.

so tired >>



MicronPC, Fujitsu, HP, and many others (CPQ?) have already made agreements with nVidia for nForce motherboards. It's just a question of supply at this point (btw, there's rumors that Dell will be using nForce 415-D based systems, but they're definitely unconfirmed rumors at this point).

Oh yes, and nVidia has said that nForce sales have been very brisk, with some OEM's selling out of nForce boards due to high demand.

 

[Daemon_UK]

<< We do not know a lot about the mobile nForce, but the rumors claim that it will be made with 0.13micron technology, equipped with GeForce2 Go graphics chip, feature up to 6 USB-ports, Dolby Digital sound, modem and LAN. >>



Umm, wouldn't have nForce but with NV17 instead of GeForce2 Go been better??

Now that would have been bad news for ATi.

Long live Nvidia

 

[Mingon]

The next revision of nforce is due the nv17m

 

[gregor7777]

Nvidia is becoming a monster. They're putting their foot in quite a few doors.

 

[MisterDuck]

...and I think they'll put their foot firmly in a few more doors before settling down...although the nforce isn't the "best" MB on the market, considering it's their first attempt at a MB and it gave Via a run for the money, I'd say everyone is in trouble come the second revision...

 

[Novgrod]

I stand corrected on nforce sales.

As for nvidia in many doors, it's probably a good thing for them. How many product generations are we away from any ape being able to make photorealistic 3d graphics? After that, what's the advantage of getting a new video card? Does anybody have a guess to where nvidia's next move will be? I'd say monitors since it'll help sell cards, but there's probably not so much new technology they can develop

 

[Ryan]

Just like MisterDuck said, this in only their first attemp, and it's a damn good one. I think that they will be looking to dominate every other chipset when they come out with their second attemp - and I think they'll be successful!

 

[MisterDuck]

I don't know about us being close to "photorealistic" 3d; for high end rendering (Things like The Hobbit, Final Fantasy: the spirits within, or Toy Story, etc.), they have entire render farms that consist of hundreds of processors. Even then, the render times are FAR, FAR from being 26 frames a second - more like a frame every ten or twenty seconds, depending upon your detail. There are literally scenes no more than a few minutes long that can take DAYS to generate.

In that aspect, I think Nvidia has a long, long time to grow, and by no means are the graphics of even the most advanced 3d engines up to par with the rendering done for movies like that. By the time they do achieve those graphics (I'd say MINIMUM of five years, and that's assuming that the system bus/cpu power/memory bandwith also increases enough to handle computation on that magnitude), I bet there'll be plenty of other things for nVidia to focus on. Regardless of that, there's PLENTY of room left for more computing power on video cards, and I think there's going to be games coming out in the next few years to reiterate that fact quite nicely.

 

[MisterDuck]

One more thing: like this entire article points out, computational speed in a small package (IE: laptop) is the future, IMO. I dare say "desktops" in the traditional sense will even been around in five years, given the advances in laptops and other portable devices.

Nvidia also needs to make their processors/cards SMALLER and they need to make them consume less energy. Doing this while increasing their actual potential isn't exactly a trivial task.

 

[AGodspeed]

That's odd, Xbit removed their nForce-M news from their web site. I wonder why...