Nvidia to add firewall capabilities to its next chipsets

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[link=http://www.xbitlabs.com]Xbitlabs[/link] 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.

[blockquote]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.
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[link=http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/display/20031218065826.html]The full report[/link]

GHoosdum

That's great - I just hope it doesn't raise the price of the chipset too much.

Enverex

Socket 939 will be Opterons and Athlon 64-FXs anyway, so the processors will still be very expensive.