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Intel To Pay NVIDIA Licensing Fees of $1.5 Billion

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-exactly-pocket-change dept.

wiredmikey writes "NVIDIA and Intel have agreed to drop all outstanding legal disputes between them and Intel will pay NVIDIA an aggregate of $1.5 billion in licensing fees payable in five annual installments, beginning Jan. 18, 2011. Under the new agreement, Intel will have continued access to NVIDIA's full range of patents."

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  1. Wonder if Intel.. by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wonder if Intel will be able to use any of NVidia's patents to bolster their GPUs, which is really their only sore spot at the moment (Atom vs. ARM might be a sore spot, but there's hope there).

  2. Very Interesting Vis-a-vis AMD/ATI Aquisition by divide+overflow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't help but wonder if this was primarily a fig leaf for Intel's licensing/acquisition of NVIDIA's GPU technology with which to compete with AMD and its acquisition and incorporation of ATI's graphics products within its own silicon. This may have advantages over the alternative of Intel making an offer to purchase all of NVIDIA.