Nvidia: We Do Not Expect Loss in Our Chipset Business Next Year

From X-bit Labs: Chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. said that the company does not expect to lose its core-logic business next year, despite of obvious obstacles on the way of the graphics company. In addition, Jen-Hsun Huang advised financial analysts to “wait for the big surprise” in the chipset-related dispute between Intel Corp. and Nvidia.

“We do not actually expect much loss in our chipset business next year. We have quite a few exciting projects that we are still working on; people are pushing us really hard to get more chipsets done. So we are not expecting the decline of it, but we are expecting adoption to increase for GPUs next year,” said Mr. Huang during the most recent conference call with financial analysts.

Starting next year Nvidia will not be able to sell chipsets for AMD Opteron microprocessors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 series processors with or without integrated graphics, next-generation Intel Atom chips code-named Pineview and so on.

Apparently, the head of Nvidia referred to current-generation core-logic sets aimed at microprocessors by Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp. When asked to clarify whether Nvidia has resolved legal dispute with Intel and can now develop chipsets for next-generation Intel chips, Mr. Huang pointed out that Nvidia is not developing core-logic sets for Intel’s future microprocessors.

“You did not ask specifically about the future and neither did I comment about that, so it is not related, [the comment] is just not related [to future chipsets]. We are not necessarily building chipsets for future Intel buses. We’ve not commented anything on that and so you are just going to have to wait to see what we come up with […] One thing that you can probably say about our company is we are pretty darn clever. There is a lot of ways to skin the cat and we are going to show you more ways to skin the cat than you can shake at and so you just have to wait,” said chief executive officer of Nvidia.

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