“The battle hinges on patent-licensing agreements signed in 2004 between the two chip makers,” Clark reports.
“Intel filed a suit in Delaware Chancery Court Monday, seeking a judgment that the agreements — which allow Nvidia chips to connect to existing Intel microprocessors — don’t extend to newer models that add a feature called a memory controller,” Clark reports. “That feature is a key selling point of a microprocessor family called Nehalem that Intel began offering in November.”
Clark reports, “Competition has dwindled in chip sets for Intel microprocessors, as several suppliers have reduced their focus on the market. Nvidia has provided a counterpoint, including a chip set called Ion for Intel’s Atom processor that displaced Intel chip sets in computers from Apple Inc.”
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