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Intel Licenses NVIDIA SLI Technology For P55 Chips

Posted by kdawson on from the men-to-match-my-mountains dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "NVIDIA announced that Intel has licensed the company's SLI technology for inclusion in upcoming products — as have a slew of major hardware partners such as ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI. This means the P55 chipsets that power those new socket LGA 1156 motherboards, which are based around the next-gen Nehalem architecture, will let you build systems using two or four NVIDIA-powered GPUs. Specifically, the licensing agreement covers the Core i5 and Core i7 microprocessors."

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  1. Is this IP going too far? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    TFA says that the Intel chipsets will be limited to 8 lanes instead of 16 to give Nvidia an advantage for thier own chipsets.

    Why is a license needed to interface with an IC in the first place?

    1. Re:Is this IP going too far? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Because intellectual property is sacred...

  2. Re:Monopoly? by networkBoy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ATI has crossfile.
    and no, this is not an antitrust issue (unless it's against nVidia), as Intel is paying nVidia for the tech.

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  3. Re:Monopoly? by sofar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless nVidia will license that same technology to ATI, it sounds like it freezes ATI out of the multi-GPU-on-Intel-chipsets market.

    s/ATI/AMD/g

    why would AMD promote SLI when they can sell crossover? It seems they would cannibalize their own GPU market by supporting SLI on their chipsets.