It's not too often that I get a complete 'out of the blue' surprise in PC hardware land, but the recent announcement of an Intel-Nvidia partnership certainly fits that bill. And it's even more surprising to discover the two companies, which will now be working together on both datacentre and consumer systems, have been working towards this for a while, keeping it quiet.
During a press conference yesterday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explained: "The two technology teams have been discussing and architecting solutions now for probably coming up to a year, and the two architecture teams—well, it's three architecture teams—are working across, of course, the CPU architecture, as well as product lines for server and PCs."
