NVIDIA confirms its chipset business is completely dead

Posted on Tuesday, November 16 2010 @ 9:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed last week that his company is no longer developing any nForce or GeForce chipsets. Current offerings are expected to continue shipping well into next year.
"We are not building any more chipsets, we are building SoCs now. We are building Tegra SoCs, and so we are going to take integration to a new level. [...] The chipset business [has] not grown largely this year because we have not really been expanding the sales of it," said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia.

But while the company no longer develops core-logic sets, it does expect its current offerings to continue shipping well into next financial year. The head of the company, unfortunately, refused to comment whether revenue share of the chipset business was already at 15% in Q3 FY2011 (down from traditional 30+%) and how fast that share will decline.


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