Despite all the tough talk that NVIDIA is directing at Intel over the last few months, the fact of the matter is - NVIDIA still needs to work with the chip giant in order to be successful. Case in point - a report from DigiTimes citing that NVIDIA is negotiating with Intel to allow NVIDIA’s IGP chipsets to support the Intel Atom processor. But wait - didn’t NVIDIA enter into an alliance with VIA you say? Well yes, they did but some PC manufacturer sources are citing that the alliance was simply used as a bargaining chip for NVIDIA - a chip they hoped to use to break into the Atom platform. If Intel lets NVIDIA support the Atom processor, you will probably see NVIDIA terminate the alliance with VIA.

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