Intel Files Lawsuit Against Nvidia

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So Intel would pay nVidia for the "Cookie" (on their boards) while nVidia Paid Intel NOTHING Certified my eye LOL!

So yes shintai, folks should wake up! Business isn't carried on like this. Intel-AMD/ATI-IBM and others have always done it the right way. It's goes like; you pay me, I pay you or I get it free if you get it free! nVidia wants; You pay me for mine but I get your tech free.

i think you shouldnt look at everything from intels perspective only...
imo both intel and nvidia are trying to misuse their market dominance to push their will onto people, but in this particular case intel is wrong.

but why should nvidia pay intel? for what? what technology does nvidia get from intel? essentially they are licensing their sli driver, a piece of software...
does any software vendor pay intel to run on their cpu/chipset?
i dont see why nvidia should be paying intel for beeing allowed to run their driver on an intel based platform. if nvidia really HAD to pay intel for this, then why doesnt intel just lock sli on their chipset?

first of all intel would get bad letter bombs from customers all around the world, then theyd get sued for anticompetitive behaviour and misusing their chipset monopoly, and then theyd be abandoned in the high end since nvidia sli would be amd only and shift the platform performance towards amd in a very notable fashion

Maybe I'm missing something here but what's the big deal? This obviously isn't over the Atom\Ion platform right? Does this mean Nvidia are getting ready to release an i7 based chipset?

laptops
entry level igp
highend desktop

but most of all its a long term strategic thing... the platform wars have begun and amd intel and nvidia all want to sell the whole pc platform, basically an entire pc, all made by intel, nvidia or amd. thats their future plan...

nvidia will probably have to team up with via while amd and intel have all they need. nvidia knows that via isnt healthy and will limit them so of course jensen is upset that he cant use intel cpus and license their bus to build a nvidia platform with intel cpu...

that would be foxconn IIRC, they scrapped the dreadnought citing that the 790 chipset was so awful they couldn't work with it any more.

thats an overstatement... but if you do a bit of research you might stumble over several cancelled 790i boards that nobody ever talked about though.

asus rog pinot noir 790i - prototype was shown at cebit last year
asus 790i reworked - never saw a prototype of this
dfi 790i - never saw a prototype
giga 790i - never seen a prototype of this either