X-bit Labs have posted a short article in which they quickly summarize what we already know about Nvidia'S upcoming NV18 chipset that has appeared in many motherboards @ Computex in various manufacturers booths.

As far as I'm aware so far NV18 has not been officially launched but that doesn't stop rumors and OEM's from showing off their motherboards with that particular chip.

If you missed the pics and specs of various NV18 based motherboards, feel free to look HERE.

Read more for more information on the X-bit Labs news story. A lot of mainboards, based on the new non-announced Nvidia chipset are presented at the Computex 2002 Show, which is being held at the moment. We find it necessary to give some specifications of the new chipset (Crush18D) for AMD Athlon (Socket A) processors and mainboards, based on it.

According to the numerous reports of mainboard manufacturers, the new chipset should have an embedded GeForce 4MX-class graphics core (with a frequency around the 250MHz), however, it turned out that first it will be released in a ?D? version, without embedded graphics. It should be noted, that NVIDIA itself hasn?t announced any chipsets code-named Crush18D.

The North Bridge (IGP) will support new memory standards ? DDR333 as well as DDR400.

Check out the full article over @ X-bit Labs.