nVidia and Intel To Team-Up

The recent acquisition of ATI by AMD has changed the face of the CPU and GPU market.
If some Wall Street analysts have launched the rumor of Intel acquiring nVidia, in reality it is far to be tree, yet.
However, according to Digitimes, both companies could team-up for a strategic partnership that could include Intel taking control of 8 to 10% of nVidia shares. Such partnership might have 2 goals:
- nVidia could decrease product developments for the AMD platform (especially the nForce platform).
- nVidia could invest R&D in IGP (integrated graphics processor) chipsets for the Intel platform.
This information seems to originate from Intel's side, so one will have to wait for nVidia answer.
For Mac users, we will of course benefit of such partnership as it would give Apple access to nVidia integrated chipset (nForce-type) a much more powerful graphic solution for entry-level hardware models than the Intel GMA series (even the forthcoming GMA3000).