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Intel Licenses NVIDIA SLI Technology For P55 Chips

Posted by kdawson on from the men-to-match-my-mountains dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "NVIDIA announced that Intel has licensed the company's SLI technology for inclusion in upcoming products — as have a slew of major hardware partners such as ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI. This means the P55 chipsets that power those new socket LGA 1156 motherboards, which are based around the next-gen Nehalem architecture, will let you build systems using two or four NVIDIA-powered GPUs. Specifically, the licensing agreement covers the Core i5 and Core i7 microprocessors."

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  1. Re:Monopoly? by verbalcontract · · Score: 5, Informative

    First of all, it's AMD.

    Second of all, ATI is owned by AMD. Because of them, AMD makes graphics cards. AMD also sells technology that allows two AMD cards to be used on one motherboard. Therefore, AMD will probably not pay money for the same technology that lets people purchase and use two competitor's products.

  2. Re:Monopoly? by snowraver1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know how a crossover cable would help with GPUs, but ATI could definately promote their CrossFire product...

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