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Su x-bit labs, sono comparse delle notizie sui progetti futuri di nVIDIA per Hammer. Il primo chipset della serie sarà "Crush K8":

Together with the launching of nForce2 chipset, NVIDIA announced one more solution known under Crush K8 codename and intended for the future 64bit AMD ClawHammer CPUs. The presentation of the new chipset was carried out by the platform division director, Drew Henry.

Of course, NVIDIA engineers had to sacrifice a few things for the sake of this beautiful solution. Crush K8 certainly has no integrated graphics core. To tell the truth, who needs it there? However, from the technological point of view the solution appeared simply excellent: simple, not expensive and functional. And what else does a mainstream system chipset need? Frankly speaking, I havenÂ’t very often come across a chipset, which I really liked. Crush K8 seems to be this rare one :)
As for the chipset specifications, it doesnÂ’t make much sense to go into detail here. Evidently, Crush K8 will imply the features of the MCP-T South Bridge and will support AGP 8x interface. No doubt, that it will later acquire SerialATA150 support too. And thatÂ’s basically all it might need.