nForce4 With Graphic Core?

We love reading the INQ, but some of those stories are a bit hit and miss. We’ve had word from the nForce Platform Team to take this one with a hefty pinch of salt:

Having as much as four different chipset variations we were expecting that at least one of them will carry on Nvidia’s chipset tradition and offer a good graphic core inside of the chipset. That won’t happen with this chipset.

. . .Nvidia is handing over a complete market segment to ATI, Via and SIS. I guess that something had to go wrong down the developing link as Nvidia would not give up this segment that easily. Knowing Nvidia it would never pull back without a fight. Perhaps the company is demoralised. So I know that this comes as a disappointment for all of you that have been waiting for Nforce 4 with some hot graphics but that simply won’t happen.

With this info we see an even better future for ATI Athlon 64/FX RS480 PCI-E chipset. Unless this article makes NVDA so cross it pulls out all the stops, like a demented church organ player.

No Nforce 4 with graphic core @ the Inquirer