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Darragh Murphy

Nvidia and Intel's major deal puts the future of gaming consoles and handhelds at stake — and AMD should be worried

Person playing game on display holding controller.

It's official: Nvidia and Intel are partnering up, and is set to bring a fusion of Intel CPUs and Nvidia's RTX GPU power into a new breed of SoC (System on Chip): Intel x86 RTX silicon.

Two rival juggernauts of the industry are now in alliance, with Nvidia throwing $5 billion at Intel to kick-start a new era of chips in PCs. With Team Blue's massive share of laptops in the market and Team Green's dominance as a GPU maker, this is arguably the dream scenario not just for both companies, but for the rest of us, too.

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