Friday, March 27, 2009

Nvidia sued the Intel.

Nvidia company filed a lawsuit against Intel, accusing the latter of violating the license agreement. This action was a response to the lawsuit Intel, filed against Nvidia in February 2009. This was reported in the press release, Nvidia.
Nvidia believes that the licensing agreement of 2004 allows it to produce chipsets for all processors Intel, and Intel, prohibiting Nvidia chipsets for processors to produce Nehalem, violated the terms of this agreement. Moreover, in its lawsuit Nvidia asked the court to suspend the license to Intel technology Nvidia.
Recall that in February this year, Intel has filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, alleging the latest in the illegal development of chipsets for Intel's new generation, including the memory controller. These include chipam processor microarchitecture for Nehalem. In Intel believes that the license agreement entered into between the companies in 2004, does not allow Nvidia to produce such chipsets.
Once the company Intel has filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, the representatives of the latter stated that currently the role of graphics processor in your computer increases. Intel resist this trend, seeking to protect in a way his own business.
Chipset Nvidia graphics cards using graphics processors GeForce 9300 and 9400 whose performance substantially higher than that of the outcome of Intel. As the basis of its new notebook chipsets Nvidia has chosen, for example, the company Apple.
Chipset called the chipset, the core of the motherboard. The main producers of chipsets are Intel, Nvidia, AMD, VIA and SIS.

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