NVIDIA is currently developing an integrated southbridge GPU to counter the PGI present in Sandy Bridge.
That is what our colleagues at DigiTimes reports claiming that NVIDIA hopes to attract manufacturers of motherboards and assemblers with a smaller configuration , lower fuel consumption and higher performance graphics circuits Sandy Bridge.
Nevertheless , we doubt that this chipset was released mainly because of disputes between Intel and NVIDIA on licenses DMI example to enable a SouthBridge contact one of the processors of the founder .
Intel believes that the licenses between the two partners do not cover the core technologies ix . Now a Core for ix SouthBridge - 2 must necessarily appeal to the DMI , a technology that NVIDIA has simply not able to use at the moment and despite the intervention of the FTC , the situation has stalled , because Intel has no obligation to sell its licenses DMI and QPI anyone .
This kind of project is not so exceptional that , but unless a surprise agreement between two companies, Southbridge will not pass the lab doors .
