From Ars:

NVIDIA dropped a bombshell today with an announcement that it is freezing development work on future PC chipsets. The GPU maker is blaming this dramatic move on an ongoing legal spat with Intel, but the market realities are there for all to see.

In the short-term this is not good for people who are looking for an inexpensive, yet 3D capable PC or laptop. The Intel integrated video chipsets have so far been less than stellar. The widespread use of NVIDIA's offerings by everyone from homebrew system builders to Apple, Dell, HP, Acer, and other large PC vendors means this announcement is going to shakeup the PC industry for the next couple of years. It will be very interesting to see how all of this shakes out. I would also mark this as a win for AMD, as those system builders may find themselves looking at AMD/ATI offerings instead of going with sub-par Intel graphics. Will we see a rise of AMD computers next year from the big PC vendors? Probably not. However, I can see the AMD offerings looking very good for small system builders and the homebrew market. In fact, I've been favoring the AMD/ATI offerings for awhile now. You can get a lot more bang for your buck with an excellent upgrade path while saving quite a bit of money.