Nvidia is Looking Forward to Fight Intel in Court

8:30 PM - March 9, 2010 by Marcus Yam - source: Tom's Hardware US

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is ready to do battle against Intel.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is a bold leader who doesn't appear to be afraid of Intel. In fact, in a recent interview, Huang told Fortune that he's looking forward to the court date with Intel.

In fact, the CEO said that he's confident that Nvidia will prevail over Intel when things are presented before a judge. The interviewer asked Huang if the company had considered a settlement with Intel, but the CEO said that there wasn't any reason to go that route as Intel's argument for its control over the chipset business is "completely nonsense."

Check out the interview video clip here (via Engadget).

Some background reading on the lawsuits:

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chickenhoagie 03/10/2010 3:18 AM
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chickenhoagie 03/10/2010 3:18 AM
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gekko668 03/10/2010 3:19 AM
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Nvidia Vs. Intel - FIGHT

frozenlead 03/10/2010 3:21 AM
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mister g 03/10/2010 3:25 AM
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Short explanation, please don't flame me, Nvidia's GPU's are starting to have more computing power than CPUs, hence CUDA's ability to offload complex calculations to the GPU that wold just take a long time on CPU. So Intel feels threatened, hence the end of their somewhat close partnership late last year. AMD must be just smirking right now, their two biggest rivals duking it out at each other. Though if the GPU in the future can't co-exist with CPU AMD's CPUs are also in trouble, wait they have Stream.

mister g 03/10/2010 3:27 AM
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ubervelt 03/10/2010 3:31 AM
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This is just silly bickering. Intel wants control and so does NVIDIA. They will both whinge about the other not letting them do what they want. This sorta crap goes on all day everyday with most competing companies.

AMW1011 03/10/2010 3:33 AM
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ubervelt 03/10/2010 3:38 AM
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I honestly thought the NVIDIA chipsets where awesome. The Nforce 2 was sooo much better than any of the crap that was competing against it. The 680i was fantastic IMHO.

thrust2night 03/10/2010 3:40 AM
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I want Nvidia to win this. Intel has definitely strong-armed them out of the desktop chipset business. Whether Nvidia chipsets are great or not, they were a competitor and losing them only makes things worse. Look at how long Intel is taking to implement USB 3 and SATA 6 on their motherboards. Less competition only hurts consumers.

Anonymous 03/10/2010 3:48 AM
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umm nForce chipsets did a good job. Performance wise they were up there with the best. More competition and more choice I dont get why people say that nvidia should not develope chipsets.

False_Dmitry_II 03/10/2010 3:50 AM
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chickenhoagie :
let me rephrase..nvidia should STICK TO making just video and graphics products and not chipsets..because why would they want to make chipsets?



Because that's a pretty large part of their business. For AMD stuff (even though I wouldn't get one) and for socket 775 (and possibly some laptop stuff)

frozenlead :
Also, Nvidia lost out on chipsets because theirs sucked compared to Intel's...AFAIK, that's pretty fair.



No, they literally had a deal with intel that basically allowed them to make chipsets in general for any kind of socket that they would make. Intel then said that the agreement had to do with a specific bus type only, and made up a new one. Then didn't give nvidia what they would need for the i5 or i7 sockets because it somehow no longer applied. Effectively nvidia can't make chipsets at all for those.

The quality of chipsets is quite irrelevant when it comes to something like this. That's like saying let's ban VIA from making anything because they can't keep up with intel, amd/ati, or nvidia.

sarsoft 03/10/2010 3:51 AM
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Some nvidia chipsets were a bit of a hard to oc and where bad in general. I had many nvidia chipsets from nForce4, 650i, 680i, and 790i. 680i was a very good no problems there but the 790i was crap. nvidia just want the bigger portion on the market pie, Money Hungrryryryry.

leon2006 03/10/2010 3:53 AM
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frozenlead 03/10/2010 3:58 AM
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retirepresident 03/10/2010 4:20 AM
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Nvidia go get them and take Intel $$$$$$. Bring the Gestapos(Intel)down.

serkol 03/10/2010 4:27 AM
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Currently Nvidia is not allowed to make chips with integrated graphics for i5-i7. This is very bad for consumers, especially for notebook buyers.

Parsian 03/10/2010 4:37 AM
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its not Intel vs nVidia, its Intel and nVidia vs Consumers

both of them practice bad business that is harmful to consumers... they both seek monopoly and killing competition.


Glorian 03/10/2010 4:44 AM
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RicardoK 03/10/2010 5:13 AM
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If you could get a choice of:
Intel - "True" GPU on the CPU socket
Nvidia - Real GPU on the chipset

What would you want?
Remember, this is only meaningful for notebook users..

I really think that Intel wants to push Nvidia out of the integrated GPU business with the integrated GPUs.

I would want a non restricted platform. Specially if I could get some real 3D performance over the huge disapointment of the "Intel HD graphics"...

Area51 03/10/2010 5:19 AM
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sakatainx 03/10/2010 5:34 AM
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I remembered when I made my Socket 939 with Nforce 4... It was so sweet and give me confidence NV + AMD = Performance
Since AMD+ATI things are changed and NV left alone without solid direction, they made many things such CHIPSET, GPU, RE Labeled GPU, Optimus, Physx, Fermi, 3D Vision... but nothing comes as a killer product. In fact they miss the GPU schedule and try to gain popularity by creating 2D comic against Intel.
Fighting Intel in the chipset business is not a solution because every chipset must develop according to the processor and this always lead AMD+ATI or INTEL+INTEL ahead....

Anonymous 03/10/2010 5:58 AM
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I don't think I've ever seen an article with less information and more comments with even less information about "fight fight on the playground" Maybe that's because the article gave such nonsense information.

Ok. The lawsuit isn't _just_ about chipsets, it's actually about a specific license for _part_ of the chipset. A part of the chipset that is moving onto the chip itself. Something that Nvidia, Intel and AMD were aware of and presented papers, talked about at conferences, etc. _before_ the license between Nvidia and Intel was signed. Maybe the author should read the filings in the lawsuit before writing "fight fight on the playground" or maybe you just like your google ads and don't exactly have reporters anymore.

lashton 03/10/2010 6:06 AM
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amd have got be be using this to cement awesome integrated GPU, maybe a mobile version on 5770 for notebooks

Tamz_msc 03/10/2010 6:18 AM
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Just why doesn't NVIDIA stop this bs and focus more on the most important thing that they're supposed to do - make proper graphics cards and compensate the six month delay that they have brought upon themselves?

sonofliberty08 03/10/2010 6:30 AM
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nvidia should make more AMD platform chipset , just like the old days ......

shin0bi272 03/10/2010 7:00 AM
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I have a question. If amd bought ati and are now making both cpus and gpus why arent intel and nvidia teaming up? I mean the two biggest players in the market teaming up and working together instead of against each other would make for a definite powerhouse of a pc. But we get these cross platform cross vendor dependencies with intel chipsets pushing crossfire and nvidia making chipsets for amd... reminds me of congress when there's a 1 seat majority lol.

babybeluga 03/10/2010 7:04 AM
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This just in:

AMD still winning in the DX11 market.

victomofreality 03/10/2010 7:08 AM
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I find all the law suits funny... AMD sues intel, nvidia sues intel, and judging by the physx article from today soon AMD sues nvidia.

Number13 03/10/2010 7:09 AM
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liquidsnake718 03/10/2010 8:07 AM
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sakatainx :
I remembered when I made my Socket 939 with Nforce 4... It was so sweet and give me confidence NV + AMD = PerformanceSince AMD+ATI things are changed and NV left alone without solid direction, they made many things such CHIPSET, GPU, RE Labeled GPU, Optimus, Physx, Fermi, 3D Vision... but nothing comes as a killer product. In fact they miss the GPU schedule and try to gain popularity by creating 2D comic against Intel.Fighting Intel in the chipset business is not a solution because every chipset must develop according to the processor and this always lead AMD+ATI or INTEL+INTEL ahead....


you forgot ion and ion2


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