Straight from Santa Clara, California, we hear that NVIDIA has officially announced that it's patented SLI technology will be featured in the next line of Intel's CPU. No, really - it's true. Soon CrossFire won't be the only option for Intel-based chipset motherboards.

According to the press release, the processor line currently codenamed Bloomfield will be supported with the nForce 200 SLI chipset, and the highly anticipated motherboard chipset known affectionately as the X58. They've also highlighted full tri-SLI support from the greatest cards NVIDIA has put out yet: the GTX 280 and the GTX 260.

The graphics chip manufacturer also iterated that the nForce chip will allow for optimal SLI performance in the next generation computing platform. Let's hope so, and while that's in the air, let's hope driver, applications, and games support pushes through as well. More updates as we get them.

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