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 Chyeld · 2009-03-27 02:53 · Score: 0, Troll

I believe this is a demonstration of the widely touted "MAD" method of diplomacy.
Either someone blinks, they all walk away with a renegotiated deal, or they all attempt to kill each other, with someone coming along later to pick up the pieces.
In this respect, Intel is in the best of the three positions. Unlike AMD or nVidia, Intel is actually not struggling financially.