SoundStorm Audio Gone Forever

Whatever your thoughts on integrated audio, there’s no denying the fact that Micah Stroud and the nForce team raised the bar to new heights with the introduction of SoundStorm audio. After recent rumblings, we were all expecting it to make a comeback in one form or another (audio, maybe even the team too). That doesn’t appear to be on the cards [cough] at all now, not according to the lads over at Hexus:

In our normal ‘chat’ with NVIDIA at IDF it was interesting to hear some news on the development of audio within the company. We (as have others) are keen to see Soundstorm brought back to the desktop in NVIDIA chipsets, and we were under the strong impression this would indeed happen. However, today we heard differently.

We can today reveal that in a briefing with NVIDIA we have been informed that Soundstorm, the popular NVIDIA sound technology is dead. This has been confirmed to us whilst talking about the NVIDIA nForce 4 SLi (P4 Edition).

Soundstorm is gone forever
Hexus