Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
I'm not sure and don't have the documents in front of me. But from what I've seen and read, Intel and nVidia had a similar agreement to the one AMD and Intel has. Neither of those companies charges the other for the other's tech or IP. If one charges the other, then the deal is off. They agreed to stay out of court otherwise. nVidia wanted Intel's tech free while they wanted Intel to pay them for their tech. So no, I don't blame Intel for not wanting to pay nVidia (directly or indirectly) when nVidia uses their tech free.
Well that I had no idea of but I still feel Intel would have resisted licensing qpi to nvidia or any other third party regardless.