Nvidia Countersues Intel on License Agreement
A nice break from the he said, she said of Intel’s recent lawsuit with AMD is... Intel's he said, she said lawsuit with Nvidia. The latter has filed a counter-suit against Intel claiming a breach of contract.
In February Intel filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, which stated that the chipset license agreement the two companies signed four years ago does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with integrated memory controllers.
"The disagreement is over the fact that they (Intel) don't believe we have the right to design chipsets for CPUs with integrated memory controllers, which we do," said Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the time. "Nvidia entered into an agreement in 2004 in order to bring platform innovations to Intel CPU based systems, and in return, Intel took a license to our rich portfolio of 3D, GPU, and other computing patents."
Reuters today reported that Nvidia is claiming that Intel has “manufactured” the licensing dispute as part of a “calculated strategy to eliminate Nvidia as a competitive threat.” According to Reuters, Nvidia believes Intel made misleading statements designed to undermine Nvidia's licensing rights and the counter-suit “seeks to terminate Intel's license to Nvidia's patents related to graphics processing and three-dimensional computing.” Reuters goes on to cite Nvidia spokesman Hector Marinez as saying Nvidia believes that without a licensing agreement, Intel's line of integrated graphics chips violate Nvidia's patent portfolio.
Previous reports say that the two have been fighting over this for a while. Huang said last month that Nvidia has been attempting to resolve the disagreement with Intel in a fair and reasonable manner for over a year. Huang also claimed that Nvidia’s Ion platform was what triggered the hostile action.
So it is stupid for Intel to do this and this makes consumers lose confidence in them. I already lost all confidence in Intel. The only systems that run Intel in my household are desktop. Only laptops have Intel chips now.
People didn't know. I was an AMD fan, but their ability to make good CPU's basically died so I went Intel for better performance. Now Intel is being a real bitch, I regret my purchase for that reason, but it still gives me good performance, so I'm not going to stop purchasing good products.
Intel "Fanboys" deserve NO bashing, at all, they did not make Intel become such a bitchy place. They did not cause Intel to try and kick all other companies away.
So don't go trying to make them feel bad for their choice, their choice is purely logical.. Intel = faster CPU, Faster CPU = Better performance, Better performance = Happy
I could count on AMD so i can build a cheap enough rig, or a fast enough rig (bang fer buck). Last Intel i had was a 2xXeon 2.8Ghz. It was really stable, but not fast.
I still consider them very good CPUs, but honestly, i prefer to spend 150€ on a PII 720 and Crossfire soemthing. Or get that 8Gb of Ram. We are all under budget mates. Well some of us are.
My next build will be an AMD, not because Intel does it worse, btu because for the price point and total shiny things offered, AMD gets my buck.
But Intel has been a real bitch lately. I would like Nvidia make them pass a hard time. And AMD/ATI for that matter. Intel is already big, doesn't need to push nobody around.
If there is a company legitimately breeching contracts, then yes, file one by all means. This is old news. And good for nvidia for finally saying, "so sorry, we won't take this."
I've personally supported both amd/nvidia/ and intel in various rigs. But i've always been happy with all 3, however, amd has always had my support with the current rig at least having a ATI graphics card.
I agree that this is bad pr for intel. And instead, they should work to "remedy" the contracts, instead of filing suits.
sorry but most of the guys i know personaly go for intel because Intel owns high end computing but they buy Intel CPUs that are in mid range ... they love the company because their top end CPU is way above AMD even thow they buy an Intel CPU that performs in the range of other AMD products
What about the US fighting Germany and Japan at the same time in two seperate theatres instead of just one? Just saying... When it comes to contract law, wording is everything. Intel will set itself up for a monopoly anyways if they have their say, then come the anti-trust lawsuits (wait don't they already have one?).
now, away from the jokes, if and i mean IF Intel really did breach their contracts with both AMD and NVIDIA, then. this could be bad for Intel users, no company = no support, but, then again we don't really know what is going on for sure anyways. I just hope it gets settled, don and over with, move on and continue to compete with each other W/O lawsuits
What about the US fighting Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time? Not good results there huh? Just saying.
Back to the main issue Intel is bitching because its monopoly is being threatened in two fronts. One one side it sees the best-bang-for-your-buck that AMD is, on the other side it sees a threat to its Atom platform by a better solution from nVidia plus their ability to produce better integrated graphics than what Intel can, so of course Intel will defend itself to the death.
I believe that instead of wasting time and money fighting with AMD and nVidia, Intel should use the resources to produce better quality products, or at least give the impression that their products are better. Just look at what Apple is doing. Macs aren't necessarily better than PCs are, however they can sell at the prices they want because instead of fighting with Micro$oft (at least not at the same level as Intel is doing now) they have been busy making their computers look like gold.
My two cents.