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Nvidia Licenses SLI to AMD, Did Hell Freeze Over?
Sosseres:
As for the topic, why is it strange that nvidia allows third parties to implement sli support on their motherboards? Since nforce boards have been doing poorly for a while now (due to intel wanting a larger market share). It is not like they sell the sli tech to AMD graphics and says please use it, just to the motherboard part...
kureshii:
Lupin, possibly. That NDA sure is tight huh. I'm really itching for that Bulldozer hardware preview now >_< AMD is way overdue on it.
Before Bloomfield, Nvidia licensing SLI to AMD would've been pretty much unthinkable. In the light of post-Bloomfield developments, it's not really much of a surprise anymore.
newy:
Now they only have to give them free or access at all to PhysiX.
NaRu:
I think the reason for doing this is because more people are getting AMDs as an upgrade from their old system because they are cheaper. There are people that can't afford Intel CPUs
AceHigh:
They are doing it as a way to compete with former ATI.
Most likely they didn't want a development where potential customers would choose Radeon cards because their logic would be "made by the same company so they should work better with AMD". As for AMD even if they may lose potential Radeon customers to Nvidia, it pays off for having more potential customers choosing AMD over Intel.
This is how merging ATI and AMD complicated things.
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