You may have to the NVIDIA / Intel license tragedy, the second round. Background: Intel and NVIDIA to an agreement, in the motherboard for NVIDIA Intel chipsets for FSB (FSB, the song, the processor with the rest of the system). In consideration for the license granted access to the NVIDIA Intel patent portfolio. Recently, Intel said that the agreement does not cover new Intel Core i7 CPU.
NVIDIA is the argument that if it is not permitted, the construction of chipsets for future Intel processors, Intel should not be allowed to continue the NVIDIA of IP in their products. As we said, we are not lawyers, and we have no idea how they are a judge, but NVIDIA’s counter-argument is interesting and could be an important leverage effect, especially if short term an impact on Intel ‘s integrated graphics, an important function in the famous low-cost segment. Unwittingly, the modalities of implementation of the Intel graphics chip, it is difficult to know how much it hurt, if the court on the NVIDIA’s. However, it is fair to believe that if the FSB gives Intel a license (to resist for a while), Intel needs patents.
