Integrated for Intel
Nvidia has one more integrated chipset and it plans to
release this part in second quarter of 2007. The chip is called MCP73 and is a
unified Northbridge and Southbridge
chipset for Intel CPUs.
We don’t have many details but we know it supports DirectX 9
graphics and that it is fully Vista premium
capable.
It also supports HDMI and should not be that different from
MCP68, the AMD chipset with DirectX 9 graphic that Nvidia plans to release at
Cebit. SATA 2 controllers, Gigabit Ethernet will be part of the new chipset.
Nvidia will compete soon to be launch Intel G33 board also
scheduled for Q2 2007. AMD won’t make any R690 version for Intel because
vendors would be too scared of Intel to buy it. Just look what happened to RD600
chipset.
