More details of the previously announced alliance between NVidia and Intel have come to light, in the form of the “Power of 3 Program”. In particular, the details of what motherboard manufacturers will need to do to get on-board:
To support SLI a motherboard maker simply has to pay NVIDIA $30,000 up front plus $3 per SLI enabled motherboard sold. In turn NVIDIA gives the manufacturer a key to put in its BIOS that tells the NVIDIA display drivers that it’s ok to enable SLI on that platform.
