IBM have won a 3 year contract with Nvidia to manufacture chips for their new video cards, including the new GeForce FX line of cards. Nvidia previous used Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer.
It will be interesting to see if in any way this deal will effect the contract IBM has with Sony to produce the new Cell CPUs for Sony for the upcoming Playstation 3 – Nvidia graphics chips are currently used in the XBox, a direct competitor to the PS2.