Nvidia with Intel i7 to boost up Graphics!

Nvidia is enhancing its features for Intel's upcoming Core i7 processors.

The effort to expand Nvidia offerings on Intel's next high-end desktop platform, which had previously been referred to as "Bloomfield." Intel named it Core i7. As a part of i7 design Nvidia has planned that it has no intention to build a chipset for Intel's next-generation interconnect technology called QuickPath Interconnect or QPI, which is part of the i7 design.

Nvidia will license its SLI technology for Intel's Core i7 processor. Nvidia's technology will work in tandem with Intel's X58 chipset, the supporting silicon for the Core i7.

    

SLI allows systems have multiple graphics boards. So, for example, system builders and users can build systems with two, three, or four Nvidia boards.

Till now, Nvidia has only offered nForce 200, "which is basically an SLI chip that acts like a PCI Express bridge. That's been the only solution and that's been a very high-end solution.

PCI (peripheral component interface), is the most common interface inside a PC for add-in boards.

This is something that customers have been asking from NVIDIA for a long time!!

On another front, Nvidia will announce a new high-performance "motherboard GPU" in the coming weeks. This will be a follow-on to its GeForce 8200 mGPU.

The upcoming mGPU will compete with the Intel G45 integrated graphics chipset.