GIGABYTE - Gigabyte nForce2

May 3rd 2003 | Hardware

DigiTimes reports on Gigabyte’s plans to launch nForce2 motherboards. Is this a defiant gesture to ATi or is a switch to NVIDIA GPU production on the video *cough* cards too?

According to sources, Gigabyte’s product adoption is limited to Nvidia’s core logic chipsets only. But the fierce competition between Nvidia and ATI as well as ATI’s recent chip shipments to some of its own-brand card-making clients has triggered market speculation about whether Gigabyte’s move is a gesture of protest… Nvidia’s nForce2 chipsets support K7 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Shipments of the chipsets are now estimated at 500,000 units per month, chipset company sources said. Despite the possible adoption, products based on K7 chipsets from VIA Technologies are expected to account for most of Gigabyte’s AMD-platform offerings, as the nForce2 is generally regarded as a high-end product with its support for dual-channel DDR400 memory and 400MHz FSB (front-side bus) speed.

Gigabyte plans to introduce nForce2 boards @ DigiTimes

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GIGABYTE - Gigabyte nForce2
Published in: Hardware on 2003-05-03