Intel PCs to Get NVIDIA Features

Nvidia demonstrated its technology at March’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, and said it expects to start rolling out the chipset by April 2005. The company has yet to announce an official name for the product, which has been informally dubbed nForce for Intel.

Current nForce chipsets support AMD chips, but Nvidia last year signed a licensing agreement with Intel allowing it to make chipsets for Intel processors too. A spokesman for Nvidia said the forthcoming chipset would include "pretty much all" of the features in the current nForce chipsets for AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron chips.

..The nForce for Intel chipset will also feature Nvidia’s Secure Networking Engine (SNE) firewall circuitry, the firm said. In the existing nForce4 chipset, the SNE performs stateful inspection on data packets coming in from the integrated Gigabit Ethernet adapter, offloading this task from the processor.. ..Nvidia also demonstrated how nForce enables a second hard drive to be plugged into the system, and easily configured to protect data on the first hard drive should a failure occur, Henry said.

Intel PCs to get Nvidia features
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