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There's no point in letting someone else take your business voluntarily.

If i was Nvidia i'd be quite willing to keep making and selling chipsets as long as AMD wanted them.

Intel makes graphics chips too. Come to think of it, Nvidia is the only major graphics chip producer that does not also make x86 processors...

Sounds like the start of a great rumor!

Yes.

As long as AMD wants to buy them nVidia is going to sell them chipsets. It would be foolish to stop just because AMD has their own graphics division. In fact, it's almost a feather in the hat for nVidia. They're selling chipsets to the owner of their biggest competitor.

AMD doesn't buy Nvidia's chipsets; system/mobo vendors buy them. So I'd say Nvidia should keep making chipsets as long as their customers want them. Letting your competitor decide what products you make generally isn't a good idea.

Intel's graphic chips are the lowest common denominator, crap.

Because Intel can make 45nm parts, they could be a formidable competitor to Nvidia, but up to this point, they make lousy graphic chips, for the uninformed masses.

How come everybody else in the chip industry is bringing out cool new things ,but AMD & Intel aren't ?

Just wait til people start licensing the memristor technology from HP! I do bet things will start looking pretty interesting then Also, it should apply to quite a lot of things, not only to processor technology but to storage, memory, various chipsets..It is probably a few years away though.

Well, it blurs the lines completely between RAM and hard storage, and that really is pretty interesting.

Then again, it might be closer than we think. Depending on the election in the US, we might see a renewed effort by the US administration on encouraging investment into bleeding edge technologies such as memristor - which could mean coming on stream a lot earlier.

Even with that being said, there are new things coming out at record speed; what we think could be 2 years ago - in a few months, a technology might be developed to bring it from 2 years to 6 months. Having lived through 16 years of technology improvement, I don't doubt the will of the market place and the drive of the capitalist to want to come up with a better widget.

Fusion is "cool", but that's the only benefit I can see from it. Instead of having a low-end GPU in the chipset, you'll have a low-end GPU in the processor. Shrug.

Intel with all the money isn't bringing out anyhing drastically new in the next years either .

I'm pretty excited about Nehalem. Quickpath and no more FSB should be nice. Of course, since that's basically how AMD has done it for years, one could easily say it isn't drastically new.

Perhaps the dynamic overclocking? I'm a little shaky on the details, but apparently if there is a thread running that is chewing up CPU, one of the cores can be overclocked and the other(s) shut off to keep the whole thing within normal thermal limits.

Maybe someday Larrabee will be something

I think your post explained why they didn't bother with the tilde.