We’ve learned that Intel holds 70+ percent of the chipset market for its own CPUs. That is not that surprising as much as that ATI / AMD still hold about 8 percent of the total market.

This is a chipset and market share doomed to extinction and Nvidia hopes to capture some more of that market. In Q2 of 2008 Nvidia held around 16 percent of the total market which is a quite large number considering that Intel is in some 75 percent of world’s machines.

Nvidia doesn’t want to lose this and this is what this whole fight is all about. The only thing that Nvidia currently has and Intel doesn’t is SLI and once it loses the control over it, Nvidia’s chipset loses its mojo.

Intel is a big bad wolf, it does what it wants and there is no one that can do anything about it and Nvidia is on top of its menu.