Intel to Pay NVIDIA Technology Licensing Fees of $1.5 Billion

[cadaveca]

Contract law is beautiful. Words are carefully chosen(negotiated) very purpsoely so that in the future, they are open to interpretation in various ways.

So when one violates a contract, they can plead to the judge that the terms were different, or not exactly as written.

Personally, the part that most interests me is that although it may seem that each is limited in thier access, tehy are also given 60 days to "fix" and potential breach of the contract. This means that contract can be breached, as long as both sides agree to settle the breach and how it's ahndled within that 60 day period.

Both parties stand to benefit largely from this agreement. The only thing that's different is that for sure nVidia is not able to make chipsets for IMC-based Intel products.

 

[AddSub]

thats a lot.. and looks like their up to 20 dollars from 14-16. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NVDA

Sh... I dumped most of NVDA @ 15.xx. I did make a bundle on LXRX (went up 45%), so that makes feel better. That's what I keep telling myself at least.

Back on-topic: 1.5bil? Pocket change for Intel.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Wow, these two companies are like a married couple ...

This is probably an even better analogy than you realized when you thought of it. Though I'd say an old married couple. Two somewhat reluctant bedfellows who are tired of dealing with each other and at any time could have a major falling out, probably over money. But they stay and work together as it's still better (to the bottom line) than the alternative.

 

[AddSub]

This is probably an even better analogy than you realized when you thought of it. Though I'd say an old married couple. Two somewhat reluctant bedfellows who are tired of dealing with each other and at any time could have a major falling out, probably over money. But they stay and work together as it's still better (to the bottom line) than the alternative.

What does that make AMD? A crazy ex stalker type?

 

[DaedalusHelios]

certain chipsets killing memory... etc etc.

Source?

What is the etc?

 

[Mussels]

Source?

What is the etc?

the etc is the dozens of problems nvidia had.

drivers causing BSOD on install, killing hardware, corrupting hard drive data on SATA (at a time when most were still IDE, but still)

a quick google will find you all the info you need, no use me linking it. they were well known issues.

 

[AddSub]

the etc is the dozens of problems nvidia had.

drivers causing BSOD on install, killing hardware, corrupting hard drive data on SATA (at a time when most were still IDE, but still)

a quick google will find you all the info you need, no use me linking it. they were well known issues.

Pfffft! Maybe your overclocking skills were lacking, eh, eh! Probably feeding the VDIMM 4V or something with inadequate cooling and asking yourself where that burning smell was coming from and what was causing the BSOD's. Tsk, tsk...

Just kidding. He's right people, although nForce chipsets were legendary enthusiast parts, especially the legendary nForce2 Ultra 400, some nVidia chipsets were pretty finicky when it came to their memory controllers which could cause anything from BSOD's to dead RAM. Even at stock. Even when AMD moved their IMC onto the CPU, these issues persisted.

With that said, what were we (enthusiasts) supposed to use back then? SiS, Intel crapola, growingly laugable VIA junk (after KT600, VIA was outclassed and could not compete in high end), or those rare and also finicky ALI/ULI boards? In conclusion: NVIDIA RAWWWWWKS!


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