AMD's upcoming motherboards will feature SLI.

well personally i think there are ppl that would want an AMD chip. but want nvidia video cards. so when you do not have the option to use SLI it could be a reason for them to not buy an AMD based motherboard. personally i think its a good thing

Well this is good news and quite the jab at AMD by offering SLI on their boards. However, the consumer also wins this time because buyers will now have more options and more options for purchases is always better.

Not like you would buy this board for some Tri-SLI GTX 580's as that would be a BIG waste.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/04/28/nvidia_geforce_3way_sli_radeon_trifire_review

I think Nvidia is paying the Mobo Mfg to include it as they found even on a 28Nm process Fermi still stinks. So for the next couple of year they'll need to do everything to stay relevant to the enthusiast market.

yes declining but not out of the picture
even with a 5% change, would take 2 years before AMD was on par with the market share nvidia has
( 5% for amd and -5% for nvidia = 10% change overall)

http://gfxspeak.com/2011/03/03/graphics-add-in-board-market-revenue-drops-in-2010/

if nvidia went belly up, then there'd only be one graphics provider. competition helps drive change, innovation more than a monopoly. like the AMD / Intel CPU wars. however much intel has cleaned up its act. amd is still hanging onto that competition

Oh, I'm definitely NOT endorsing any demise of Nvidia. It's just nice to have ebbs and flow!

But lke your link (JPR) indicates YTD AMD 12.6 / Nvidia -6.2; so they're sliding-out of the drivers seat IMO, while the pie is actually shrinking. I think AMD with Bulldozer and existing Northern Island will be a very enticing to price/performance/power of a complete CPU/Mobo/GPU(s) packages. Then superb upgrade path later as new CPU's show and Southern Island (28Nm) parts release the gaming enthusiasts will be more apt to enlist with AMD. Consider AMD endorsing of non-proprietary support of OpenCL and Accelerated Parallel Processing (or now APP which was Steam) really looking to finally come to fruition. Along with AMD "Gaming Evolved" initiative they really appear to be firing on all cylinders for the next couple of years.

Let hope, because the "Nvidia -Way" was their way (TWIMTBP/CUDA/PhysX) or no-way has stagnated gaming. Now Jen-Hsun Huang needs to get real, and compete. Stop thinking Nvidia pulls all the strings and they should get a premium for locking out those who didn't play it his way. It just the gig's up...

what we actually need is a third corporation with graphics muscle to come out. not gonna happen,probably,but heres to hoping :D

the integrated gpu's will do more and more damage to the sales of the external,well,not integrated ones. specially in the low end.
ve built a bunch of systems where the person opts for better base hardware and integrated gpu at first, then later on deciding on his/hers gpu

AMD's integrated is like a 6550 in their CPU with GPU. I would have to dig to find that article. So really the low end is pretty much done. It'll take a few years, but in the end it'll just be the mid-range to high end for add-on video cards. The only way low end made money was by volume and intel won that war. However with this design change, AMD may (hopefully) gain more market with that now.

The SLI support will feature on motherboards with the upcoming AMD 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets.

Wish they get some good corporations and comes out with good benefit.
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AMD have a great market from the beginning and such up-gradation is just an added advantage..