NVIDIA MCP61 is a clear sign that NVIDIA will continue making chipsets with integrated graphics (IGP), after having a long break during the early years of the K8 architecture. New roadmaps have now surfaced that reveal that NVIDIA is planning a single-schip chipset; the chipset will conists of only one chip instead of like with the nForce 430 and nForce 410 chipsets that use both a MCP chip and a dedicated GeForce ASIC chip. With MCP61 these are made into one chip and in turn made with 90nm technology. There are no details about what graphics circuit NVIDIA’s new chipset series will use, but we’re leaning towards a GeForce 7300-based circuit. The chipset is expected to arrive in August and will then of course be for AMD’s Socket AM2 platform and brings a lot of interesting features.
“MCP61 will show up in three flavors. MCP61P will be a direct replacement for the GeForce 6150 combination, or the “high end.” MCP61P features a single PCIe x16 lane, dual x1 lanes, Gigabit Ethernet and RAID 5. Since MCP51P, NVIDIA has also dropped on-chip DVI output in favor of Intel’s Serial Digital Video Out (SVDO). SVDO has existed in one form or another since Intel’s 845G chipset, but the technology has not really picked up yet. It will be up to the motherboard manufacturers to include SVDO to DVI (or DMS-59 possibly) transmitters.”
Source: DailyTech
