Strategic Relationship With AMD
NVIDIA tightly couples its Northbridge and Southbridge, linking them using AMD's Hypertransport bus. The result is not so much an integrated chipset solution, but a complete, ready-made platform that goes head to head with anything Intel might do, while adding audio, and communications into the bargain.
Gentle Intel foe, Tony Tamasi, gives the Computex press a lesson in nForce-ment
Tony Tamasi, Nvidia's Senior Director of Product Management, clearly stated at the company's nForce press conference that Nvidia has "a strategic relationship with AMD", and when pressed further about supporting Intel chips he simply said, "We don't have a license to Intel's front side bus." It was obvious from the manner in which Mr. Tomasi answered these questions that Nvidia was not concerned about supporting Intel's processors with nForce, and was quite willing to go it alone with good buddy AMD.
Combining audio and graphics will let you have your own personal Bubble Guy to dance the night away with on your PC - this from an NVIDIA demo of the power of nForce using a 3D procedural animation front-end for WinAmp
