Clarkdale and Arrandale 32nm dual-cores with four threads
and IGP on CPU will use DMI chipset interconnection rather than QPI, that is currently used on the X58 generation of chipsets.
This is good news for Nvidia, since the company holds DMI
chipset license for four years now, and they can probably build a chipset with
better graphics compared to the one intel plans to stick in its multi chip
module CPUs.
We do know that IGP graphics will be disabled once you plug
in a discrete graphics card, but we wonder if Nvidia will be able to override Intel’s
IGP and use the one from its chipset. The bad news for Nvidia is that buying
an IGP chipset from Nvidia and plugging Arrandale or Clarkdale CPU on it will add cost to manufacturers and this will be Nvidia’s biggest problem.
Good news for Nvidia
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