NVIDIA Corporation – the most exciting developer of chipsets for AMD microprocessors – has changed its roadmap a bit. Apparently, there will be nothing really new from NVIDIA this year and in January. However, starting from February more and more interesting options for AMD64 chips will emerge in Santa Clara, California.

The NVIDIA’s highly anticipated MCP with Serial ATA-150 support will be mass produced starting from early February and is likely to reach the market in the Q1 2004. There will be two versions of the chip: Gigabit MCP-S and MCP-S-RAID, according to current expectations. The latter will allow stripe and mirror, while the former will provide Gigabit Ethernet. The MCP-T will not be phased out and will continue to server mainstream segment.

The next big things for the Athlon 64 in 754-pin packaging – the nForce3 250 and nForce3 250Gb – will be produced in business quantities starting from late January. There will also be CK8S2 version of the nForce3 250Gb with 4 Serial ATA ports for 939-pin AMD64 microprocessors, however, it will come later, as the mass production is slated to start in mid February. The timeframe is adjusted to meet customer demand for the chipset, as first 939-pin AMD central processing units are projected to hit the ground in March 2004.

According to sources close to the company, NVIDIA will not have PCI Express-supporting part right after the bus rolls-out in Q2. The firm’s code-named CK8-04 single chip core-logic with 10 USB 2.0 and PCI Express ports for Socket 939 CPUs will only be manufactured in the Q3 2004.

Later in the year NVIDIA is also likely to launch a PCI Express supporting product with integrated DirectX 9.0-supporting graphics core. Besides, the company also indicated a Wi-Fi supporting product sometime in the past.

NVIDIA official representatives did not comment on the issue.