Thanks again Blue. Turns out that SGI and nVidia have more formalized their relationship. I heard some rumblings about something like this happening, I'm surprised they decided to make it public. Looks like SGI wants out of the chip business, and are throwing their engineers to nVidia instead. I'll just take the same quote that Blue did:

As a major initiative to bring a dramatic price/performance discontinuity to the visualization market and accelerate product time-to-market, SGI will incorporate NVIDIA's graphics technology into new desktop graphics systems. As part of the initiative, SGI will transfer a world-class team of 3D graphics engineers to NVIDIA to work on its next generation technology.