Nvidia has responded to a court filing made by Intel on
Monday, in which the chipmaker alleges that the four year chipset
licensing deal does not extend to future generation CPUs with
integrated memory controllers, such as Core i7 series CPUs.
Nvidia
thinks the license still applies, even to upcoming CPUs, and contends
that Intel is trying to squeeze it out of the chipset business because
the focus is slowly shifting to GPUs over CPUs.
"We are confident that our license, as negotiated, applies," said
Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia. "This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying
CPU business."
In
its press release, Nvidia cites that since it entered the Intel chipset
market, it has offered numerous innovations, such as SLI, Hybrid power,
CUDA, and, more recently, Ion. It emphasizes its Ion chipset offers a
ten fold increase in graphics performance compared to Intel's 950 IGP
used on the Atom platform.
Nvidia believes Intel's latest move
is an attempt to control the PC market, which is slowly embracing
Nvidia platforms. The company also claims it has been trying to resolve
the dispute with Intel for over a year.
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 16:33
Nvidia responds to Intel chipset court filing
Written by Fuad Abazovic
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