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Report: Intel May Dump Nvidia, Turn To AMD For Radeon Graphics Licensing (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the building-long-lasting-relationships dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Intel could dump Nvidia for a licensing deal with AMD as the chip giant tries to prop up its patent portfolio. Currently, Intel is under a $1.5 billion licensing agreement with Nvidia, which the two companies signed in 2011. At the time, the two companies had spent years fighting each other in courts over patent licensing, and the agreement put all that litigation to rest. Intel's Nvidia deal is set to expire on March 17, 2017, and a recent report by Bloomberg claimed that Intel is now looking to cut a deal with AMD instead.

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  1. Re:Life Support by jimbob6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Intel already pays AMD a license for the AMD64 architecture.
    in fact there are several cross licensing deals between AMD and Intel.
    AMD isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

  2. nVidia sucks balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Some years ago nVidia had a massive power bug in their chips causing blue screens of death. Not everyone was affected, but for those who were life was hell. There was a campaign to get them to fix it but they ignored it. Well fuck them. Your mileage may vary, but I wouldn't touch nVidia with a bargepole after that. Fuck those guys. I've stuck with ATI after that so I like this news.

  3. Re:Which is better? ATI or Nvidia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can someone tell me which one is better, please?

    Thank you !

    Well now that we no longer have to consider GPU based virtual coin mining and only consider gaming, NVIDIA is better.

    I know, I know, that breaks the hearts of *some* FOSS advocates but I was talking about gaming, not licensing based political agendas.