Is Apple gearing up to buy nVidia’s chipset division?

There have been more than a few rumors in the press lately about nVidia getting out of the chipset business. Most of these revolve around the poor reception of the 790i by OEMs (many of whom are pulling boards based on this chipset). Some claim that nVidia is not killing it off but rolling it into the recently started SOC (system on chip) division. But while all of these are going on we hear rumblings that Apple is looking to drop a green chipset in their future systems.
What if between these two rumors there is a third possibility?
I have been looking over the rumors and the very small number of real facts that are out there and I have arrived at a rather wild conclusion:
I think that Apple is getting ready to buy a slimmed down version of the nVidia chipset division.
Author: Sean Kalinich
Published: August 21st 2008
Type: Editorial (Analysis/WAG )
Spelling and Grammatical editor: Planetx64 Staff  

If you stop and think about it this makes sense. Apple has always wanted to manufacture its own chipsets in house and they are annoyed with Intel (for their own reasons) and have been looking around for a replacement. We can safely rule out AMD as they are not making anything to support Intel and probably won’t for the foreseeable future. This leaves nVidia, but Apple would not have sufficient demand to make buying the chipsets from nVidia worth either company’s time.
If, as I think, Apple purchases enough of the Chipset division to design and build their own both sides win. Apple gets their very own chipset (making the Apple even more proprietary) and nVidia gets a huge influx of cash to offset the recent hit taken by having to replace a ton of failed GPUs. nVidia would be able to keep the engineers they want and roll them into the SOC division, I am sure that the purchase would also include agreements to use nVidia mobile GPUs (which prompts me to wonder if Apple’s affair with ATi is over, but that is for another article)

I would keep an eye out for more indications leading this way.

I could be wrong here, but all the signs I see point to this.

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