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Nvidia and Intel bury the hatchet
HATCHETS BURIED, Intel and Nvidia have finally agreed a way out of their long running patent row and announced a six-year, $1.5 billion dollar technology cross-licensing deal.
Under the deal both will get access to each other's technology. Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion over the next six years for access to its patent portfolio, which includes its GPU and supercomputing technology. Not only that, the Green Goblin will also get access to parts of Intel's patent portfolio, including patents covering microprocessors and chipsets.
According to Reuters, all the Green Goblin does not get seems to be proprietary Intel x86 designs, and patents related to flash memory.
What it means for Intel is that it can jack Nvidia chips under the bonnet of their CPUs, such as Sandy Bridge. Meanwhile Nvidia can use Intel technology to build its Project Denver, Tegra, and other types of processors. At the moment Nvidia considers its technology to already be inside Sandy Bridge.
However it does mean that any Nvidia x86 project is now officially toast and will never be mentioned again.
Nvidia's goblin king Jen-Hsun Huang said that he had no intention of building x86 processors as Project Denver represents the future of Nvidia's processor efforts.
In a statement Huang said that his intention is to capitalise on the growing popularity of ARM processors and building yet another x86 processor when the world was a-flood with them is pointless.
It also means that Nvidia will not try to make an Intel-compatible chipset. Huang said he did not want to make any more Intel-compatible chipsets, and despite settling the DMI bus licensing dispute that shut Nvidia out of the Intel chipset market, Huang can't be bothered. µ
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Nvidia's Tegra ARM cored system-on-chip devices are getting a lot of traction in the embedded device sector. Combine that with the news of Microsoft's ARM ports for Windows and Office (I broke this story in mid-November: http://bit.ly/euv18M), and Intel now has no choice but to play nice with Nvidia: INTC needs friends now, more than ever before.
I dispatched all the "deepthroat" classed spies long ago with my horde of ninja assassins.
Seriously though, t-INQ is just too big not to be noticed anymore. It's because of that, it will never have the sordid level of dirt it once had.
This is the last time I regularly check theinquirer. It's lost all its usefulness for me. There was a time, years ago, when this site had stories before anyone else. When their "deepthroats" (I think is what they called them) would leak information weeks/months in advance. Now it's just copy and paste trash that everyone else has had for days or trade-show junk that even reuters has covering.
Although you left long ago, good bye old friend. You will be missed! :'(
"What it means for Intel is that it can jack Nvidia chips under the bonnet of their CPUs"
So we should expect an Intel-Nvidia MCM à-la Fusion, uh?
What it actually means, according to some other website, is that Intel can use some GPU-related patents owned by Nvidia to manufacture their IGP. Actually, they've been doing so since 2004 and in this regard the settlement only extends the 2004 agreement until 2016.
Therefore.... Sorry, no GTX 580 inside your Core i-something.