Nvidia to add firewall capabilities to its next chipsets
Xbitlabs reports that Nvidia is planning to add firewall capabilities to its Athlon 64-supporting chipsets due out next year. This move seems an attempt by the company to provide more security for enterprises adopting 64-bit technology from AMD.
Sources close to NVIDIA’s partners said firewall capabilities will be present in some of the company’s core-logic products, including in code-named CK8-04 that will be mass produced in the third quarter 2004 and the CK8S2. The former is anticipated to be a single-chip logic that will boast with support for PCI Express x16 (PEG x16), PCI Express x2 as well as 10 USB 2.0 ports. The latter – CK8S2 – will be a version of nForce3 250 designed for Socket 939 processors.
