This whole situation confuses me. nVidia would have a problem with Intel because they perceive Larrabee as a threat to their own products. That makes sense. However, Larrabee's first retail run was canceled. It seems clear that Intel pulled the plug on Larrabee as a last resort to get the FTC to stand down this lawsuit, but even so, nVidia got the result that they wanted.
All of that aside, the fact remains that the only way to realize the full potential of an nVidia GPU is to plug it onto a motherboard with an Intel chipset and an Intel CPU.
Surely nVidia is not going to take AMD's side in all of this. Surely they aren't going to start producing hardware that is optimized for AMD motherboards and chipsets. Surely they aren't going to try to get into the CPU market.
There are only two scenarios under which it would make sense for nVidia to position themselves as Intel's political rival:
1) They are planning to buy (or be bought by) AMD.
2) They are planning to be bought by Apple.
Number 1 is obviously not the case. Number 2, however, seems feasible. Have you noticed how routinely nVidia executives love to heap praise upon all things Apple?