NVIDIA skips LGA 1366 Nehalem plaform, supports SLI by chipset on LGA1366 X58 mainboards

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NVIDIA skips LGA 1366 Nehalem plaform, supports SLI by chipset

According to news reports from the web, NVIDIA has acquired the rights to use the Intel QPI technology. The interesting development is that NVIDIA has no interest in developing a new chipset to support the LGA1366 Nehalem chipset. Instead, it will supply it's nForce 200 bridge chip (BR04) to have SLI support on the Intel X58 platforms.

As we already know, SLI technology is nothing other than disabling support using software means. NVIDIA, by enabling SLI support with a so called hardware chip is just going to add more costs to manufacturers who intend to develope Intel X58 boards that supports both CrossFire and SLI.

With NVIDIA reluctance to develope a chipset for the LGA1366 and the mid range LGA1160, it looks like we will only be seeing INTEL for INTEL, AMD for AMD real soon.

It seems that NVIDIA will soon be exiting the chipset business with no more new NV chipsets support both Intel and AMD platforms.