Nvidia has confirmed that the company has essentially placed its Nforce chipset line on hiatus, given the legal wrangling between itself and Intel.According to Robert Sherbin, the lead corporate communications spokesman for Nvidia, Nvidia will “postpone further chipset investments”.Sherbin also dismissed a report that Nvidia was pulling out of the mid-range and high-end GPU market as “patently untrue”. But Nvidia’s recent chip introductions do imply a shift in graphics companys traditional stance is underway.

Nvidia Halting Chipset Development – Reviews by PC Magazine

I was at GTC and I have to tell you, while Fermi wasn’t meant for gaming display, it is meant for a helluva lot more than scientific development.  Coupled with another GPU, Fermi does the heavy duty work and lets another card ’simply’ handle the display.  With lots and lots of tech companies demanding faster computers, game developers, animators, imaging applications will forever be changed by this change in focus from NVIDIA.

Finally, really fast calculations can be done under your desk… this + CUDA absolutely changes the game plan… including gamers.  Trust me when I say that this market is not small…NVIDIA isn’t stupid, I’m sure they’ve done the math…probably on their own GPUs!  Gamers (me included) need to get over it, for the world GPU market does not revolve around them!