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Nvidia Reportedly Scores QPI License While Intel Gets SLI For X58 Motherboards

12:10 PM - July 15, 2008 by DigiTimes
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Category : Motherboards 8 comments

Nvidia has recently reached an agreement with Intel and received a Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) license enabling the company to design chipsets for Intel’s next-generation platforms, according to sources at motherboard makers. Nvidia will only launch solutions for entry-level and mid-range motherboards supporting socket 1160 CPUs (Lynnfield) initially.

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OrderChaos 07/15/2008 6:21 AM

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Was wondering if that was the tradeoff. Rumors, but no official announcement. Now there is!!

cah027 07/15/2008 6:33 AM

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So no high end MBs from Nvidia ?

Blackwidow_rsa 07/15/2008 8:44 AM

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Who in their right mind would buy nvidia boards now? Hot, unstable...

homerdog 07/15/2008 9:26 AM

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I'm a little confused by the different Nehalem sockets. How will LGA1160 compare to LGA1366?

pcguy1059 07/16/2008 12:27 PM

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I Haven't Run SLI on these new Nvidia Motherboards cause they suck i can't wait to go to intel chipset with socket LGA1366 and SLI

Anonymous 07/16/2008 12:15 PM

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Hello? Nvidia did not get a QPI-license, that's whay they concentrate on the socket 1160 Nehalems - they don't use QPI.

homerdog 07/16/2008 1:26 AM

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Hello? Nvidia did not get a QPI-license, that's whay they concentrate on the socket 1160 Nehalems - they don't use QPI.

Could you please elaborate? What do they use if not QPI? Google is failing me at the moment

cmmcnamara 07/17/2008 7:48 AM

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This article specifically says, and I copy paste here: "reached an agreement with Intel and received a Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) license". It says that NVIDIA will initially only offer entry level and mid range segments, initially implying that high end solutions are likely to come at a later date. Someone take a class on analyzing basic sentence structure yeesh.