Well, unlike what I used to think before, all four of these companies are very good at seperating issues. I suppose so many zeros exchanging hands etc, have a tendency of making people sober.
AMD is only interested in nvidia so long as they can make them look good. What else nvidia does on the side with intel is not really of their concern.
Intel provides most of the chipsets that drive their CPU's and as a result Intel is par non the best when it comes to chipsets fot their CPU's.
AMD is not a large enough part of the market to give NVIDIA a useful hold over the desktop chipset market. By making chipsets for Intel, their market share can only grow. For core logic developers like NV and ATI, their primary concern is how many desktop PCs they can get into, irrespective of be it an Intel or AMD machine. NVIDA has saturated the AMD market with many of their chipsets and the last thing they want is to make it seem their technologies are tied to AMD, espcialy if AMD is not the premier platfrom anymore like it is now with AM2. After all, should AMD go up in flames tomorrow, that would be the end of NVIDIA in chipsets and the end to their SLI technology. :/
Not a situation nvidia would want to fins themselves in.
ATI does not have this problem because they were already supplying chipsets for intel CPUs for year on end.
Maybe all we can do is wait and see how this plays out, because I dont believ any of use other than these companies know what is really cooking and how their relationships are structured. Whi knows NV Chipset eng. team might very well hate working with AMD's CPU but do it because it makes business sense :/
Cant wait 'rill price reductions though from both IHVs. Cheap fast PCs are never a bad thing
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