NVIDIA and SGI Strategic Alliance

NVIDIA and SGI Strategic Alliance landed today, giving players another thing to circle on the calendar.

NVIDIA Corporation is behind the announcement. NVIDIA Corporation and SGI today provided further details regarding the strategic alliance between the two companies recently announced on July 20, 1999.

As a major initiative to bring a dramatic price/performance discontinuity to the visualization market and accelerate product time-to-market, SGI will incorporate NVIDIA’s graphics technology into new desktop graphics systems. As part of the initiative, SGI will transfer a world-class team of 3D graphics engineers to NVIDIA to work on its next generation technology.

PC hardware is moving stupid fast right now, and this is one more part of that arms race.