Saturday, August 15, 2009

Nvidia to introduce new mobile chipsets

Nvidia is planning to introduce three new mobile chipsets in the first quarter of next year. TitledMCP89, MCP99 and MCP85, the first two will be designed for Intel laptops and the third for AMD. It is also reported that Nvidia expects to receive MCP89 and MCP99 orders from Apple - who currently makes a broad use of Nvidia's GeForce 9400M.

In May Nivida claimed that Intel was unfairly stifling its sales of graphics chips for netbooks by offering companies steep combo deals on Intel's Atom CPU and 945GSE chipset (which contains the GMA 950) together. Going back a few months further, the two began a spat over whether or not Nvidia's chipset license covered processors with integrated memory controllers (Core i7 and on, basically).

Nvidia declined to comment on the report.