In a move to boost both companies, Nvidia announced it will supply native Scalable Link Interface support on Intel’s X58 chipset, which is due in the fourth quarter. Nvidia’s nForce 200 SLI architecture aggregates multiple graphics cards in separate PCI slots and runs them as one card for greater performance.

“Intel and Nvidia have finally come to their senses,” said analyst Jon Peddie of JPR, a leading GPU, multimedia and gaming analysis group in Tiburon, CA. The two

companies have been in a standoff.

Until now, Nvidia has held all the cards in the SLI game, dealing out licenses for its chipset to motherboard manufacturers such as Gigatrend and aBit. Since many board makers rely heavily on gaming enthusiasts — a market where Nvidia’s GForce GPUs are a top player — they bought Nvidia’s chipsets by the bucket load, despite reports that competing chipsets had no technical limits with Nvidia’s […]

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