Intel - NVidia: Beginning of a Love Story?

According to Digitimes, NVidia is looking for a closer partnership with Intel. NVidia could even be ready to exchange part of its graphics technologies for improving its relation ship with Santa Clara's giant. This information comes couple of weeks after AMD's acquisition of ATI and also the announcement made by Intel to strongly strengthen its GPU division, aiming to provide consumers with something more than shared memory-based graphic chipsets.
NVidia might be looking for a technology partnership for improving its engraving processes in order to reduce heat release while improving performance. With the exponential increase of power consumption by GPUs, NVidia might need to follow the strategy built by Intel around the Performance/Watt scale. Indeed, if in desktop having eager graphic cards is not that much a problem, it becomes an issue in a notebook while companies try to offer the longest battery lifetime as it recently became one of the most critical point for consumers. Last but not least, ATI/AMD with the recently released Radeon 2900 GPU might have taken back the lead, and NVidia might need to enter tight relationship with Intel to be competitive for the next GPU generation.