NVIDIA officials have rushed to deny the rumors that have spread on the Internet according to which the company plans to quit its chipset business. The rumors were started by Digitimes, an IT publication, by publishing a Taiwan report that talked about the matter.

According to the report, NVIDIA asked its partners that manufacture motherboards to attend a meeting at which the company supposedly asked their support for the next chipset generation that NVIDIA plans to develop. The report continues by saying that the motherboard manufacturers didn't give the company any answer to this appeal.

The writers of the report then concluded that the company might quit its chipset business and focus more on its GPU division.

NVIDIA officials have said the company has no such plans whatsoever. According to them, it seems that NVIDIA is doing quite well on the MCP market, where products of the company were on 60 percent of the AMD platforms in the second quarter of 2008. Nothing was told about whether the company's motherboard partners have refused to offer their support for its next chipset generation.

According to the PC Magazine, Bryan Del Rizzo, a company representative said that “SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability. [The] nForce 790i SLI [chipset] is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI.” “We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms,” he then continued.