Intel do 1 or 2 chipsets per processor and they are exclusive to a socket compared to AMD where you can still by nforce 520 boards for am3
just shows how Economy minded AMD are, if they can rival i7 series then well have some seriously high perf/$ computers
Isn't that nice? Hey Intel, where's my nForce chipsets at for the i7? Oh wait...
Personally, up until the SB7xx, I couldn't stand AMD/ATI southbridges (and neither could Vista, lol). I was saddened that nVidia didn't really put any work into improving the 780a chipset (which was pretty good, btw), and instead just renamed it. It probably saddened ASUS as well, and that's why the Crosshair III was on an AMD chipset (and by extension, Crosshair IV).
nVidia do a lot of b1tching and moaning about Intel not letting them build chipsets for their processors (and rightly so), but they do nothing for AMD processors when AMD has nothing against it.