NVIDIA To Make VIA Nano Supporting Chipsets Later This Year – MCP79
VIA Technologies held a launch party on June 5 in Taiwan to officially announce its new VIA Nano processor (Isaiah) and a new standard for small form factor motherboards, Mini-ITX 2.0. Nvidia’s general manager of MCP business, Drew Henry, appeared at the show lending weight to previous reports the two companies will be teaming up on a new CPU-chipset platform in the near future. It seems highly likely that a VIA/NVIDIA deal has been struck and that is good news for both of them and bad for Intel as the Atom is getting some competition. It only makes sense for Both VIA and NVIDIA as Intel and AMD are the dominant forces in the industry.
Although VIA made it clear it was not announcing any cooperation with Nvidia or related products at the event, sources at PC vendors have revealed that Nvidia’s first VIA CPU-based chipsets will be launched in the first quarter of 2009. The MCP79 chipset will support VIA’s Nano processors and a bus speed up to 1333MHz. The built-in graphics core will support DirectX 10, the sources contend. Both VIA and Nvidia declined to comment any further regarding their cooperation, but industry watchers believe the appearance of Henry at the launch, and comments he made about VIA’s Nano CPUs, point to a clear indication of the relationship between the two companies.
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