Nvidia to possibly abandon VIA for Intel Atom

[Astute33]

Although VIA Technologies and Nvidia entered into an alliance to cooperate in the low-cost PC and MID markets earlier in the year, according to recent reports, Nvidia has used the alliance as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Intel, demanding Intel allow Nvidia's IGP chipsets to enter the Atom platform ecosystem, according to sources at PC makers.

[allenpan]

after study atom's data sheet, seems to me that u can easily use "other" desktop chipset, like dual xeon on a "i875"

[bluetooth]

in fact, it is currently using the 945GC

[allenpan]

i am referiing more of mainstream chipset

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It shouldn't be a problem at all. I think even AMD can do it with thie ATI rs600 (which is end of life).