Mcp79/7a @ Fw174.20

[AnarchX]

NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0860.1 = "NVIDIA MCP79/7A ENG"
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0860.2 = "NVIDIA MCP79/7A ENG "
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0862.1 = "NVIDIA MCP79SLI"
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0862.2 = "NVIDIA MCP79SLI "
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0866.1 = "NVIDIA MCP79MX"
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0866.2 = "NVIDIA MCP79MX "
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0867.1 = "NVIDIA MCP79MH"
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0867.2 = "NVIDIA MCP79MH "
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0868.1 = "NVIDIA MCP79MV"
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0868.2 = "NVIDIA MCP79MV "
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0870.1 = "NVIDIA MCP79U"
NVIDIA_C79.DEV_0870.2 = "NVIDIA MCP79U "

Seems like a big assault for Intel-plattform... :smile:

edit: Why the forum does not allow sequenced capital letters in titel?

 

[Arun]

Yup, with MCP7A/MCP7C and C73, they can pretty much target the entire Intel market, and it looks like they'll be on time for Back-to-School OEM design wins with MCP7A. I'm sure they hope to be ready in time with MCP7C for Winter OEM design wins too, unlike with MCP73 where they couldn't compete there and only started shipping it to OEMs (such as HP) very recently for the Spring cycle. It would be nice if NV had a new southbridge to replace MCP55 and pair with C73 on 795i or 880i though...

BTW, if anyone was wondering why 790i is so late despite reusing MCP55, it looks like they needed not just a metal layer respin to get it to work, but a completely new tape-out; the die shot at Anandtech clearly indicates it's a B1: http://anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=391 - given that chip was designed by the same team as C55 (which shipped on A11 despite being completely new), that's pretty bad!

 

[INKster]

Yup, with MCP7A/MCP7C and C73, they can pretty much target the entire Intel market, and it looks like they'll be on time for Back-to-School OEM design wins with MCP7A. I'm sure they hope to be ready in time with MCP7C for Winter OEM design wins too, unlike with MCP73 where they couldn't compete there and only started shipping it to OEMs (such as HP) very recently for the Spring cycle. It would be nice if NV had a new southbridge to replace MCP55 and pair with C73 on 795i or 880i though...

BTW, if anyone was wondering why 790i is so late despite reusing MCP55, it looks like they needed not just a metal layer respin to get it to work, but a completely new tape-out; the die shot at Anandtech clearly indicates it's a B1: http://anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=391 - given that chip was designed by the same team as C55 (which shipped on A11 despite being completely new), that's pretty bad!

It seems that buying Uli and setting up the Bangalore center did nothing good for their market execution qualities lately.
Besides all the delays in the remaining chipsets for both AMD and Intel CPU's, that darn nForce 570/590 SLI just refuses to die, and is still used as the Southbridge component in 790i SLI (!).

 

[Thorburn]

It seems that buying Uli and setting up the Bangalore center did nothing good for their market execution qualities lately.
Besides all the delays in the remaining chipsets for both AMD and Intel CPU's, that darn nForce 570/590 SLI just refuses to die, and is still used as the Southbridge component in 790i SLI (!).

And it's chock full of bugs too! I replaced our 680i test rigs with 750i as I'm not touching MCP55 again.

 

[Arun]

And it's chock full of bugs too! I replaced our 680i test rigs with 750i as I'm not touching MCP55 again.

This probably won't make you any happier, but at least they did a respin (A2->A3) going from 590/680i to 780i/790i... I wonder what that fixed, heh.