Nvidia, Intel locked in fight over CSI technology
Olive branches at dawn for AMD
SOURCES CLAIM INTEL is refusing to provide Nvidia with a vital piece of CSI (common system interface) technology, causing a frozen methane like atmosphere at their respective HQs in Satan Clara.
And the same sources claimed that while Intel hasn’t exactly fallen in love with AMD, it appears happy to talk to Nvidia’s bitter competitor, which, of course, now owns ATI.
Olive branches are being wafted in the direction of Sunnyvale.
Of course, Intel has its own tech coming real soon now in the shape of Larrabee – and that only spices up the fight.
Intel is, the sources claimed, deadly serious about entering the graphics fray, which leaves Nvidia between Rockall and a hard place.
For once, Nvidia has taken the role of the underdog – but we’ve no doubt at all that pugnacious CEO, Jen Hsen Huang – isn’t going to take this kind of treatment from Chipzilla. µ
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Well...
Surely this is further evidence to graphzilla that it's time to purchase chimpzilla and stop this zilla-tomfoolery. The obvious upcoming battle is nVid v Intel and nVid needs some CPU know-how.Come on nVid - open your wallets and be bold!
Time to Buy AMD
Sounds like it is time to buy AMD. NVIDIA could then make great CPU's, chipsets and GPU's and put the crunch to Intel.Not again!
This takes the piss! Why the F*** haven't Intel been taken to the cleaners yet!?Nvidian buyer
AMD x86 cpu licence non-transferable, intel's long arm.Merger
Then instead of a buyout they need to do a merger. This would allow the the nontransferable license to still be used.Trade as AMD
Well then Nvidia buys up AMD and trades as AMD, that way the license isn't transferred.I bet Intel wants to trade CSI for SLI
Nvidia has, so far, declined to license SLI to Intel.Now Intel declines to license CSI to Nvidia.
Quite obviously, this is to put pressure on Nvidia to finally license SLI to Intel, whereupon Nvidia will be able to obtain a CSI license.
Skulltrail
Ref above comments about SLI not being licenced to Intel.....Skulltrail?Not what I thought
I had originally thought intel had licensed the CSI tech to nvidia already and that intel's and nvidia's chips would be the only ones on the CSI lanes.ready something of this sort last year, I'm going to do a little search and see what comes up
buying x86
If we're talking "buying" x86 I wonder if VIA would be a better target. I would think it cheaper than AMD. Dunno about license transfer/merger questions though. Nvidia recently started doing low power chips (with ARM) so VIA seems like it would easily fall in that line?X86 monopoly
Sorry fellas, i'm pretty sure that only 4 licenses exist to manufacture x86 processors, and they all have that clause of non-transferable. This was brilliant on Intel's part. As long as the entire world needs x86 to retain back compatibility, their brand and their monopoly are safe. Can't wait to see the anti-trust step in when AMD is out of the pictureTaste of their own medicine
Its about time Nvidia got slapped, they spread FUD, they slate the competition, they try and create 3D programming interfaces to give themselves exclusivity amongst game developers, this is just what they need, and its a taste of their own medicine. If Nvidia buy AMD that will be bad news for everyone. It will screw up competition in the graphics market, limit consumer choice which means we will be left paying huge sums for mediocre graphics cards that consume vast amounts of power and thus generate tons of heat. So on whole bad for you and me and the environment.x86 License
If NVIDIA buys AMD and the x86 cross licensing isn't transferred, then won't Intel lose EMT64 since it's a almost direct rip off of AMD64? It seems that would put Intel in as big of bind as AMD/NVIDIA. There would have to be an immediate halt of all chip production from both companies.