An old rumor from October 2001 about Nvidia's audio processor was finally confirmed by the company itself on the 23rd of September, a reader pointed out. The company will presumably unveil a special audio processor for add-in audio cards at some point competing with Creative Labs and a couple of minor players in the audio market. Nvidia's nForce2 MCP-T provides some impressive audio technologies for gaming, watching movies and listening to music, whereas the newer nForce3 series does not integrate the advanced audio capabilities due to chip complexity constraints. In early 2000 Nvidia acquired virtually the whole patent portfolio as well as hired development staff from Aureal ? a well-known maker of audio solutions from the late nineties ? that was not successful, but invented some interesting audio technologies. As a result, NVIDIA has been about to enter a new market for itself for some time now, at least, the company has had everything that is required for this. Source: Xbit-Labs