Intel chipset road map slowed down by Windows Vista drivers
What has taken Intel so long? For one thing, Intel says the ever-changing requirements for Windows Vista drivers forced it to pull resources away from the project to make sure it had stable drivers for all of its chipsets.
We had to do many, many iterations of engineering work to get a functioning driver for Vista,” said Mike Joy, graphics software product marketing engineer for Intel’s mobile platforms group. Intel wasn’t alone in having problems creating graphics drivers for Vista; Nvidia also suffered several delays getting its own drivers ready. Intel also says that PC companies, when informed of the time crunch, wanted Intel to focus on improving the video processing quality of the 965 chipset over 3D technology like vertex processing. “We put our focus first on video, but now we’re refocused on getting our vertex processing capabilities delivered,” Newman said.
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