Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
Precisely. And thats also why it has outserved its purpose. Specially with 6+ SATA ports now that is a peak of 1.8GB/sec in theory. Plus USB, turboflash etc etc.

And I´m sure its also easier and cheaper to just link the ibexpeak with CSI/Quickpath. Faster, less traces and most likely better electric properties.

When thinking about it. I would also make a quite real and possible statement that nVidia is out of the chipset business in 2010/2011. VIA knows this and already abandon Intel chipsets. Because look at the Ibexpeak. Its basicly the same AMD will have with their cores in 2010 or so. And the IGP market is also 100% AMD/Intel with on CPU IGPs. I think this is also why AMD puts less and less effort on highend discrete GFX. And another bold statement would be that around 2013-2015 everything the Ibexpeak and AMD equal will be on the CPUs. That can yield some seriously small corporate/parents desktops with a CPU+memory+SSD basicly

i really hope that doesn't means the death of highend discrete cards, cause i doubt we see anythign compareable to a 8800 on a cpu soon.