Nvidia is the first to blink in its standoff with Intel over the terms of licensing each others' wares. The graphics chip maker is conceding support for its multi-GPU technology on Intel's upcoming 'Nehalem' processor platform without getting much contractual love in return.SLI will be available for Intel's 'Bloomfield' line of Nehalem chips and the accompanying gamer-oriented chipset, the X58. New motherboards catering to Bloomfield CPUs and X58 chipset will use the nForce 200 SLI processor to bridge a maximum of three Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia claims the silicon can provide up to a 2.8x performance boost over traditional single graphic card platforms.
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If nVidia doesn't make their future nForce chipsets as attractive as Intel's, they will lose a lot of enthusiast customers...
Nvidia has no hope of overtaking Intel on the chipset front. Nvidia is more concerned about Crossfire than nForce chipsets. If Nvidia is forced to use Crossfire on future Intel boards ATI will wreak all sorts of havoc with Nvidia cards.
What's interesting though, is that both Crossfire and SLI go against Intel's CPUs. When GPU processing is more popular systems with multiple GPUs will be much faster in games and multimedia than any CPU Intel could possibly make. So it's a three-way war for control of the desktop.
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