We told some time ago that this year is a favourable for NVIDIA’s chipset business and the company plans to make quite a lot of money selling its core-logic products for AMD processors in 2003. We reported about loads of advanced chipset products, including both IGPs and MCPs to be launched by NVIDIA Corporation this year or early next year and now it sounds like we were quite right. According to the information published over here, the company will release its new I/O controller next month.

In addition to juicy features already supported by the nForce2 MCP-T, the new NVIDIA MCP-S will provide Serial ATA-150 ports as well as Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. As a result, we will get the most comprehensive I/O controller available now. It will boast with Parallel ATA-33/66/100/133, Serial ATA-150 connectors, 6 USB 2.0 ports, 10/100Mb/s and 10/100/100Mb/s Ethernet controllers, 3 FireWire (IEEE1394) ports, Dolby Digital encoder as well as PCI and ACR buses.

Mainboards utilising the new chipset are currently scheduled to appear in mid-July. I believe these will be higher-end products for hardware enthusiasts and will not be too popular due to high price. The most feature-rich products have always been expensive, haven’t they? And there have always been guys who got them.

We still remember NVIDIA’s Marvin Burkett’s promise to offer MCP with integrated WLAN controller by the end of the year, so, expect more to come from the Santa Clara, California-based design house of GPUs, IGPs, SPPs and MCPs.