NVIDIA is the WORST graphics card
manufacturer. Intel On-board graphics is 1000 times better than NVIDIA.........

-- rather like the "hot puke" Nvidia throws out...

If it gets really bad between Intel & Nvidia, to a point where they are no longer providing technical specks to each other, AMD could turn to Intel and say we are not giving you crossfire. AMD will dominate the market, as they are the only manufacture that can provide CPU, GPU & motherboard chipset. But this might force Intel & Nvdia to join forces as one will go bust. Or Nvidia might try purchase AMD or VIA.

Look, let Nvidia enjoy their present market value, hopefully they can exercise their core competencies to secure or even increase their market share; this will not be likely if they do not put their core into someone's x86 die. Nvidia knows this and to make matters worse the seem to be stuck at 65nm making their cores very inefficient. Should they manage to evolve to 45nm cores soon they might survive in the high end discrete GP; forget the IGP and chipset market, this will go the way of VIA and Cyrix. Intel and AMD are busy with 45, 32, 22nm line width today, and the GP integrated into the CPU core is inevitable. Remember real men own fabs, this was coined by Jerry Sanders.

I think Intel is pissed because they are not allowed to make SLI motherboards.. hopefully there will be somekind of deal where Nvidia gets the QPI license and Intel get the SLI license.

Everyone is dewing it. There is no reason why but I would not mind seeing those green b-tards get beat up a little. If the recession..er economic slowdown hits as hard as some say, they will all suffer. In closing Viva Corporate Bailouts!

Nvidia will be able to differentiate itself with PhysX accelleration, and I expect that it may team up with VIAfor the CPU side.

All this assumes Larrabee rocks.

My money stays on the safe bet: Intel will - once again - spew warm sick at us, and call it a graphics chip.