Not to mention GeForce, Quadro, Tesla and Tegra are all infringing Rambus patents:

They can sell Fermi, I guess.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7530421/42

Being the owner of an Ion based system I have to say I am quite impressed with what they can do in small spaces. So if this is anything similar then I will be happy! I think Intel have possibly shot themselves in the foot with not allowing Nvidia to make chipsets for its chips in the longterm as companies like Nvidia and Via will have to make somehting else - possible focusing more on the CPU side of things, so hopefully long term good for consumers.

You're right; I'm very displeased with the current state of patents. One could patent the sun and get ppl to pay for it and get away with it.

Damn patents are killing us all.

Intel have the right to deny anyone the use of their patents. That's what patents are for. If you don't want that to happen, just kill the whole patent system. I hope Nvidia pays nicely for trying to fool the customers the way they do.

Those US FTA boys won't do jackdoodle, NV needs the roundhouse kickin' attitude the former EU Antitrust madam displayed. And even then it'll take years. Intel needs to be bombed by Antitrust cases, nothing less.

But not by those FTA goons; they're just too compromised, defending their non-action by calling for 'open markets'; again doing nothing. Before you know it they'll be throwing flowers to Intel, calling it the American way....

One compromise made by not integrating, is higher cost.

This is what AMDer will say. If the comment is coming from Intel Insiders, they will say about competitor products:

'it's easy to hide behind graphics when their (AMD's) mobile processors are rubbish in comparison to ours'.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=12503&vpr=yes

That is why, Intel employee claimed, your rockstars are not like our rockstars while AMD would say, AMD'ers are your friend.