To us is already known about NVIDIA plans to release integrated chipsets MCP73 and MCP79 for intel platform . The first of them will ensure compatability with DirectX 9.0c, the second will propose the support Of directX 10. It is also known that now NVIDIA control 61% of market for those integrated chipsets for AMD platform, and interest in the integrated chipsets for this platform will only grow with the proximity of the release of Windows vista.
Associates reported that NVIDIA is assembled to represent in the following year to new integrated chipset for the platform AMD: MCP68 and MCP78. Both will be the singlechip solutions as chipset series MCP61. As basis chipset MCP68, which will leave in the first quarter of 2007, will be placed the graphic core of class geForce 7xxx with the support Of directX 9.0, Pure video and HDCP.
Chipset MCP68 will support hyperTransport 1.0, which will make possible to create on its basis motherboard with socket AM2. The integrated chipset MCP78 will leave in the second quarter of 2007, there will be the support Of hyperTransport 3.0, which will make possible to create on its basis motherboard with Socket AM2+, the intended for the installation of processors generations K8L. Furthermore, chipset MCP78 will support directX 10, which guarantees it popularity.
Both chipset will support one port IDE, on four ports SATA-300, disk massifs of levels RAID 0, 1, 5, 12 ports USB 2.0 and one gigabit net port. Most likely, for the production chipsets MCP68 and MCP78 will be used 0.08 m technical process.