Jamie Le Souef

The folks (or rather Jon Stockes) over Ars technica have a rather compling argument why Apple won’t be changin from Itel Chipsets anytime soon.

…the real development that makes this chipset rumor implausible to me is Nehalem. Intel’s Nehalem is due out at the end of this year, and if NVIDIA (or any other chipset maker) has a license for Intel’s new QuickPath interconnect I’m not aware of it. So Apple would have to switch right back to Intel chipsets for their upcoming Nehalem towers. And indeed, those towers could very well be the mysterious margin-reducing products that Apple referred to on their conference call.

Hit up the link below for the full article

Analysis: why Apple won’t drop Intel chipsets any time soon.

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