Nvidia to soon provide SLI support to Intel

Cue the Music, and give me a beat!
"Now that it has the resources of AMD behind, ATI Technologies is confident that it will be able to produce more compact, faster GPUs while being to reach the channel more effectively, and the graphics chip maker has indicated its rival is now standing alone in the market.

However, industry sources have indicated that Nvidia will soon announce that it will allow support of its SLI technology on Intel's chipset platforms, with the two companies already having met to discuss the partnership.

Intel met with Nvidia recently to seek ways to avoid any negative impact sprouting from the recent merger between AMD and ATI , the sources indicated. "
The funny thing is, back when nVidia was first making chipsets they would only do so on the AMD platform due to the high licensing costs on the Intel side.

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