Geforce 9400M Laptop chipset with DDR2 or DDR3

Nvidia’s newly launched Geforce 9400M chipset actually can support both DDR2 and DDR3 memory. This is good news for many notebook manufacturers as it gives them flexibility to use the cheaper memory and the one that makes more sense for any given SKU (Stock Keeping Unit).

Intel also has chipset that supports both DDR2 and DDR3, and since there is no any performance difference you can chose the one you like.

Nvidia plans to make its chipset popular simply as this it its big opportunity as its Geforce has to compete against pitiful G45 Intel’s integrated chipset. ATI or should we say AMD won’t even make a notebook chipset for Intel as Intel won’t let them and for Nvidia this mean one serious graphics / chipset competitor less to compete.

Memory manufacturers will be selling either DDR2 or DDR3 and for them it won’t make much difference, as the prices are so close these days.