Hey Reynod, look a little closer...

The thing here is not SLI/Crossfire. It's about multi-core GPU's, like we've been seening in the CPU front. Dual cores simply rule the CPU world by now, with quad's gainning momentum. Imagine the time when threading turn into the trend and quad/hexa core cpus become dominant. That's the path GPU's are going to follow now, too.

As the article says, it's cheaper and faster to produce a small cheap and put a bunch of it to work together in a multi-cpu scenario.

SLI/Crossfire is pretty much more far from this concept. It is, in reality, a way to get more cash from us. Got money? Buy the last card. Got more money? Buy two of it! Or even 4... And in the end, the next record-breaker was is always less then 6 months away.

I dare to bet that multi-core GPU's will ultimately become the death of multicard solutions. Multi-gpu cards can come in all sort of flavors, big or small memory, 1 to n cores.

Today we are stuck with one-gpu(core)-saves-the-day solutions. if you need more horsepower for your last game/app, you need one more card. 

Tomorrow we may see multi-die solutions with, like we see in quad-cores today, with 16, 32 cores per die, let's say 64/128 cores gpu solutions, sitting in one card.

Do we need more?

Drivers for SLI and Crossfire are still very primitive.

Modular GPU's will therefore need much more stable drivers than are currently available.

Otherwise the consumer will treat it with the kind of contempt and scorn currently being vent on MS and AMD for VISTA and PHENOM.

No more dud products please ...