[url=http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=210264#210264 said:NVIDIA PCI Express Technology at CES[/url]]PCI Express significantly increases bandwidth between the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) by enabling a balanced distribution of bandwidth to those applications that require it the most. NVIDIA's PCI Express bridge chip, an industry first, affords the flexibility to instantly adapt a variety of the Company's award-winning GPUs to the new PCI Express bus technology with the full capabilities and throughput offered by PCI Express.
Although its a quite route to ensuring you are PCI-Express compatible without transisitioning your products all at once, this seems like a slightly odd move - you'll loose the benefits of the PCI-Express bus (as you are still operating at AGP8X - which makes the first line of that quote a little disengenuous in relation to what they are talking about) and your lower end parts have to include a second chip which must raise costs. NVIDIA had a full range of AGP8X complaint parts on the market when there was a transistion to AGP8X, it seems a little odd the are building a bridge for PCI-Express.