We have already reported about some limitations of the ULi chipset supplies after the company had been acquired by Nvidia. As you know these chipsets have been pretty popular among the manufacturers of inexpensive mainboards, because some of them featured simultaneous support for AGP 8x and PCI Express x16 interfaces.
According to our colleagues from the German HardTecs4U site, Nvidia decided to terminate the supplies of ULi chipsets to third parties completely. Under “third parties” they obviously imply independent mainboard manufacturers. Nvidia is very ambitious about pushing their own chipsets into the lower segment of the mainboard market. At the CeBIT 2007 show they have demonstrated such solutions as MCP68 and MCP73, so the ULi solutions need to be removed from their way.
Engineers that were involved into ULi chipsets development will now join the Nvidia team working in the same field. So, it looks like ULi branded products have now sunk completely into the archives of computer history.
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It's sad to see that the aquistion of a company is purely to dissolve it for both personal greed and competitor retaliation. Had AMD/ATi not successfully implimented the use of the ULi southbridges, this would be a non point. However, the ULi southbridges were excellent performers given their price points. Companies like Asrock, are now relegated to using mostly VIA, and will have limited opportunities to sell hybrid chipsets that use either different types of RAM or graphics connectors. Shame.
[Posted by: Ballistix | Date: 03/17/07 03:56:16 PM]
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Totally agree, I'm even surprised it's possible to do such a thing with so few competitors left. I would have thought regulating bodies would have forbidden the take over in the first place.
It's a shame for Nvidia to disolve a promising company just to protect it's own standing in this duopol (AMDATI vs Nvidia).
Unregulated capitalism at its finest.
[Posted by: Le_Gritche | Date: 03/18/07 02:15:13 AM]
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So that’s why I can get one Asrock 939Dual-SATA2?
Tell me Nvidia where are your comparable alternative with both native AGP and PCIe slot systems?
What you don’t have it?
THEN REBRAND THE ULI M1695 + ULI M1567 TO SOME OTHER NVIDIA NAME IS THAT SO DIFFICULT TO DO?
[Posted by: lazy | Date: 03/20/07 06:09:51 AM]
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Did you know that nVIDIA is bigger than AMD?
be suprised but nVIDIA's market cap stands at
~13 Billion USD while AMD's stands at something like 9 Billion USD.Maybe next year we'll be hearing that nVIDIA had aquired AMD(& now ATI too).
Nice times ahead of us..
[Posted by: Erik Larsson | Date: 03/20/07 09:52:43 AM]
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Nvidia has revenue of 3 Billion USD and AMD has revenue of 5.6 Billion USD.
Market Cap just tells you how many suckers each have convinced to buy it's stock.
[Posted by: Mallissin | Date: 03/23/07 06:54:35 AM]
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