Report: NVIDIA Plans to Block Lucid’s Hydra Chip

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.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .