NVIDIA: Notebook External Graphics Still Under Development

Rene Haas, general manager of NVIDIA's notebook division, revealed in a recent chat with a media reporter that an external discrete graphics card designed for notebooks is still being developed in-house.

In fact, notebook external video card is not a new concept, ASUS, MSI and many other manufacturers have tried, AMD has also launched the "XGP" technology, but for various reasons have failed to achieve real success, only an experimental nature.

Almost a full year ago, Rene Haas first confirmed that NVIDIA is developing external graphics cards for notebooks, but this time it did not announce more progress. It just said that NVIDIA is still working hard and everyone is waiting for good news.

Interestingly, Rene Haas mentioned the Thunderbolt interface during the conversation and seemed to consider it as an external video card connection scheme, but did not give a very clear statement. Sony's flagship notebook, the VAIO Z, released at the end of June this year provides a high-end external discrete graphics card Radeon HD 6550M with the Thunderbolt interface, so it is technically feasible.

Rene Haas also emphasized the success of his lead department, claiming that NVIDIA Mobile Graphics has won more than 200 notebook designs on the Intel Sandy Bridge platform.