by Mark Hachman 10.07.09
Nvidia has confirmed that the company has essentially placed its Nforce chipset line on hiatus, given the legal wrangling between itself and Intel. According to Robert Sherbin, the lead corporate communications spokesman for Nvidia, Nvidia will "postpone further chipset investments". Sherbin also dismissed a report that Nvidia was pulling out of the mid-range and high-end GPU market as "patently untrue". But Nvidia's recent chip introductions do imply a shift in graphics companys traditional stance is underway. Nvidia's launch of the Fermi architecture was a surprise not because of what it offered, but because of what was excluded: PC graphics. With the Fermi, Nvidia built in innovations like Parallel DataCache, a cache architecture for physics and ray-tracing algorithms, and IEEE-754-2008 floating-point accuracy, both of which analysts saw as unnecessary for the types of calculations performed by 3D PC games, traditionally Nvidia's core market.
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