Remember the MSI Big Bang Motherboards we mentioned last week, specifically the Fuzion with the Lucid Hydra chipset allowing multiple-vendor SLI? Seems that the Fuzion board has been delayed, possibly terminated, due to some strongarming by NVidia.
Considering the product would impact NVIDIA’s profit coming from SLI fee, the green giant decides that it’s time to do something. Firstly, they will break support for Lucid’s chip at the driver part, and by unknown means force MSI to postpone their “Big Bang” motherboard. Though MSI claims the Big Bang Fusion powered by Hydra engine will be released by the end of 2009, we don’t think so, exactly. The site Overclock3D believes the board will be delayed to early next year, or even be killed finally.
Update: Real Nvidia & MSI’s official response to this, freeing NVidia of any responsibility.
via Report: NVIDIA Plans to Block Lucid’s Hydra Chip – Expreview.com.
@ toms
+1
nvidia:
1.7%
20% clock miss
no 40 nm
and wood screws
This cruel decision will lead to the fall of NVIDIA. Now i hate nvidia.
Nvidia cheats its loyal customers. Nvidia cheats gamers. If they are NOT willing to change their decision, i will NOT buy any nvidia gpu then.