NVIDIA May Allegedly Take Issue With Board Partners Considering Intel Arc Battlemage

NVIDIA has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, as it skirts a one-TRILLION-dollar market valuation. While we're fond of the company's products, its corporate behavior has occasionally come under fire, with some of the most high-profile remarks coming from former partner EVGA.

The latest such allegation comes from a suspect source: an unnamed industry contact speaking to Russian YouTube channel PRO Hi-Tech. Now, we've reported on PRO Hi-Tech before; the channel is well-known—especially in its native Russia—and probably wouldn't spread rumors if there weren't a kernel of truth behind them. However, it's also well-known that PRO Hi-Tech is a fan of Intel hardware, so take this story with an extra grain of salt.

Assuming Google's translation of Russian is accurate—unfortunately, we don't have someone who can read Cyrillic on staff—PRO Hi-Tech says that he came about this information almost "by accident" thanks to an employee of a company "that apparently will sign a partnership with Intel." We can expect that ASRock and Acer will continue to make Intel Arc graphics cards, and MSI actually already does as well—although those cards never came stateside, as far as we can see.

Will we see an ASUS ROG Intel Arc GPU, or perhaps a Gigabyte Windforce model? Maybe. Or maybe not, if NVIDIA has anything to say about it. It would be interesting to see more of AMD's partners (like ASRock) pick up Intel's cards. Powercolor, for example, could launch a "Blue Angel" or "Azure Dragon" model as a counterpart to its "Red Devil" and "Red Dragon" cards. Alternatively, maybe XFX or even Sapphire could ship some Arc GPUs. Only time will tell.