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A shortage of PCIe capable chipsets with onboard graphics will lead to increased graphics card sales in the second half of this year, according to the general manager of NVIDIA Taiwan Sales.

Talking to Taiwanese news website Digi Times, Paul Sun of NVIDIA expects one million extra graphics card to be sold each month as a result of the onboard graphics shortage. Right now, only Intel and ATI have PCIe capable chipsets featuring onboard graphics, and solutions from SiS and VIA won't appear for another few months.

Couple the lack of chipsets with motherboard manufacturer dissatisfaction in integrated graphics, particularly on AGP based chipsets, and the result is more purchases of graphics cards. What remains to be seen is whether this will increase system prices, or if PC buyers will simply benefit from a half decent graphics card in their new system.

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