NVIDIA today announced that it has combined the processing capabilities of the NVIDIA GoForce family of handheld graphics processing units (GPUs) with Intel ?s newest processor family (codenamed Monahans) based on the third-generation Intel XScale architecture.

The Monahans platform family is expected to offer a wide range of performance, power and integration levels to help meet the needs of mobile phones, portable gaming devices, personal media players and other consumer electronic devices. The NVIDIA GoForce family of handheld GPUs, including the recently launched NVIDIA GoForce 5500, enables advanced multimedia features such as digital TV, photo imaging, surround sound audio, and 3D gaming on next-generation handheld devices.