We have already reported about some limitations of the ULi chipset supplies after the company had been acquired by Nvidia. As you know these chipsets have been pretty popular among the manufacturers of inexpensive mainboards, because some of them featured simultaneous support for AGP 8x and PCI Express x16 interfaces.

According to our colleagues from the German HardTecs4U site, Nvidia decided to terminate the supplies of ULi chipsets to third parties completely. Under ?third parties?they obviously imply independent mainboard manufacturers. Nvidia is very ambitious about pushing their own chipsets into the lower segment of the mainboard market. At the CeBIT 2007 show they have demonstrated such solutions as MCP68 and MCP73, so the ULi solutions need to be removed from their way.

Engineers that were involved into ULi chipsets development will now join the Nvidia team working in the same field. So, it looks like ULi branded products have now sunk completely into the archives of computer history.