I think I need to elaborate a bit - Nvidia has a technology which allows users to use multiple graphics cards simultaneously for better performance, the name of

I think I need to elaborate a bit - Nvidia has a technology which allows users to use multiple graphics cards simultaneously for better performance, the name of this technology is SLI. AMD has a similar technology for their own graphics cards which is called Crossfire. Crossfire and SLI establish similar functionality but are completely different implementations with their own tradeoffs and performance scenarios. All this licensing allows is for companies like ASUS and Gigabyte to add the Nvidia specific circuitry for making SLI work on AMD motherboards. Going forward - AMD graphics cards continue to use Crossfire for multi gpu support, Nvidia cards continue to require SLI for multi gpu support, a mix of Nvidia and AMD cards continue to be incompatible for multi gpu scenarios (unless you use something like Hydra which I havent tested). This announcement should instead read - "Nvidia lifts restrictions preventing motherboard makers from offering SLI support on AMD based motherboards"