As an example of closer collaboration between intel and NVIDIA its possible to note the south bridge NVIDIA for intel laptop with SLI technology support .
Yesterday appeared information from anonymous motherboard Taiwan producers , according to which NVIDIA can transmit to intel the part of its developments .
Naturally, many of our associates interpreted this news in a simplest manner: rumors about the preparation for discrete graphical solution from Intel is already known. However, at the recent conference Intel representatives stated that the company does not have clear plans with the release of discrete card. The project larrabee is considered as special-purpose accelerator, which can become part of hybrid version nehalem processors . Since graphic core is integrated in processors from this generation with directX 10 support , NVIDIA company could share its experiences with Intel.
So, NVIDIA can help Intel in the creation of integrated chipset with directX 10 support . But here a similar cooperation direction somewhat contradicts NVIDIA interests , since the company attempts to recapture from Intel market share in the integrated cards segment . In the first quarter NVIDIA become leader in the desktop video card segment , but the most important producer of the integrated card solutions is as before Intel, which retains 50,7% of market share.