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The argument was before that transition. AFAIR the contentious point was that Nvidia had a license to the bus for P6 arch (by virtue of Xbox) but did not have
by whaleofatw2022 2y ago
The argument was before that transition.
AFAIR the contentious point was that Nvidia had a license to the bus for P6 arch (by virtue of Xbox) but did not have a license for the P4 bus.
AMD was also more than happy to have NVDA build chipsets for Hammer/etc especially due to them not having a video core... -at the time-.
Once the AMD/ATI merger started, that was the real writing on the wall.
- wtallis 2y agoNvidia's chipset line for Intel motherboards started with the Pentium 4. There may have been relationship issues between the two companies that prevented Nvidia from entering the Intel chipset market sooner using a derivative of their Xbox chipset, but none of that has anything to do with what ended the nForce chipsets for Intel.