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NVIDIA Countersues Intel Over License Conflict

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

MojoKid writes "After Intel filed a lawsuit against NVIDIA late last month, alleging that a four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed did not extend to Intel's future generation CPUs with 'integrated memory controllers' (like Nehalem), NVIDIA decided to fight with fire. Today, NVIDIA filed a countersuit in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware against Intel Corporation for breach of contract. Furthermore, the action also seeks to terminate Intel's license to NVIDIA's valuable patent portfolio, which no doubt is reverberating with some level of intensity in the halls of Intel."

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  1. The real source of this post is here... by MojoKid · · Score: 1, Informative

    I submitted this post this morning and one of the slashdot editors must have replaced the source link with the Reuters release. Here's the real source of this post: http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-Countersues-Intel-Over-License-Conflict/

  2. FIX SLASHDOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

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  3. Re:Why would Intel be so greedy? by EvilRyry · · Score: 3, Informative

    What fantasy world are you living in? Although antitrust laws may say the government _should_ do that, they almost certainly won't.

  4. Re:Why would Intel be so greedy? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Intel doesn't need either AMD or NVIDIA.

    I disagree. Intel is behind the 8-ball with Larrabee. They're promising things already delivered by NVidia and AMD and I'm pretty sure they had to license NVidia patents to release Larrabee.

    It's widely grokked that current Intel graphics chipsets suck for gaming or high-performance computing and the only way they are going to compete with NVidia and AMD in this arena is with Larrabee.

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  5. Re:Tomorrow? Intel more than ever...! by 3vi1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD has been selling chips (AMD64) with an integrated northbridge memory controller for six years - way before Intel.

    Also, you might want to lookup 3DNow!, or some of the other graphics instruction sets that AMD has been integrating into their chips for the last 10 years.