Report: NVIDIA Plans to Block Lucid’s Hydra Chip

bigbangRemember 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.

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  1. toms
    November 16th, 2009 at 00:50 | #1

    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.

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  2. December 4th, 2009 at 18:51 | #2

    nvidia:
    1.7%
    20% clock miss
    no 40 nm
    and wood screws

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  3. November 6th, 2009 at 15:22 | #3

    if this is true, nvidia is fucking bullshit: http://bit.ly/34nwa7 if they get the board/tech canceled i will be forever pissed.

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

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  1. November 11th, 2009 at 13:02 | #1
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