However, NVIDIA’s spokesman Ken Brown has just contacted Techreport to clear the air on the issue, stating that NVIDIA “had nothing to do with MSI’s decision to postpone its Big Bang Fuzion motherboard”. He said, “as I mentioned, we welcome Lucid to the market and have no intention of blocking them with our drivers, etc.”
To prove himself to be saying the truth, Brown relayed a statement from MSI product manager Jason Lee, and here’s the statement in full:
We have seen a lot of speculation about our upcoming Big Bang motherboards, and we wanted to take this opportunity to clear up some misconceptions.
First, the MSI Big Bang is a line of products targeted at enthusiast gamers. Big Bang is not a single motherboard or product. The first motherboard in our Big Bang line is the MSI P55 Big Bang Trinergy which uses the nForce 200 SLI chip to deliver 3-way SLI on P55. With Trinergy, gamers can combine the latest Intel CPUs with the power of 3-way SLI. The product, which was originally debuted at Cebit 2009, is on track for a release in Q4 2009, as planned.
The second product in our Big Bang line will be the MSI Fuzion motherboard featuring Lucid Hydra technology. Although we had planned to release this product by now, we decided to postpone it until early next year to make sure it delivers the best possible experience for our customers. We are continuing to work closely with Lucid to bring this exciting product to market.
We want to be clear that the reason for the delay has to do with software, and not external pressure from others. NVIDIA did not delay or impede the production of Fuzion in any way.
We’re very excited to bring these products to market, and will share further details for the Big Bang line in the weeks to come. Stay tuned!
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