Intel has a problem with its new Core 2 Duo platform; the support for ATI and NVIDIA’s multi-GPU technologies, Crossfire and SLI, is far from well spread and this may lure more buyers to AMD’s Socket AM2 platform. After now that AMD has acquired ATI, NVIDIA is Intel’s perhaps best chance and now information has surfaced that states that Intel will support SLI with its own chipsets. It will announce this support soon and a bit unexpected it is the mobile platform that is the first priority. The Intel 945 chipset, which is used together with Merom, Core 2 Duo for the mobile market, will support NVIDIA SLI and hopefully this is a sign for a closer cooperation between Intel and NVIDIA. This should hopefully also tend for more powerful computers on the portable market.
According to the same information Intel has reached agreements with both ATI and NVIDIA about support for their multi-GPU technologies for its new Core 2 Duo platform. Something that would be made possible with the help of new drivers and sounds like the only working solution for Intel if they want to stick to the top of the performance ladder.
