According to the DigiTimes, NVIDIA and Intel are teaming up and its good news for netbook fans. Their union will enable NVIDIA chipset support to Intel’s Atom platform, which would enhance graphic performance. As you all know, virtually all netbooks of note use the Atom processor, so this could lead to a significant upgrade in netbook performance, since most netbooks currently use Intel’s built-in graphics chip.

NVIDIA’s MCP79 chipset will be the first to support Atom CPUs, but initially will only apply to nettops. After that, though, we should start seeing netbooks benefit from this venture. ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI have already given their blessings to the partnership, believing it will give them more pricing flexibility.