NVIDIA Countersues Intel Over License Conflict

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 27, 2009 @12:42AM 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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Re:Why would Intel be so greedy? by EvilRyry · 2009-03-27 01:36 · 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.
Re:Why would Intel be so greedy? by morgan_greywolf · 2009-03-27 01:47 · 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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