Intel to pay Nvidia $1.5bn over 6 years

muon · 10 Jan 2011 at 22:47

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4121/the-license-agreement-intel-to-pay-nvidia-15-billion

Anyone have any idea over what this is about? Will nvidia start producing chipsets again?

Or is it covering a motherboard chipset monopoly lawsuit?

MumboJumbo · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:31

Nvida have no reason to make chipsets. We have intel sli boards now and they will be a damn slight better and cheaper than nvidia's. Nvidia have never really made a good board.

matthab · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:36

My Evga 680i has been a good trooper. Yes it has its faults but when it was new there wasnt much there which could compete with it.

I suspect this has been going on for a while. Intel I think are paying nVidia for use of SLI.

MumboJumbo · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:58

matthab said:
My Evga 680i has been a good trooper. Yes it has its faults but when it was new there wasnt much there which could compete with it.

I suspect this has been going on for a while. Intel I think are paying nVidia for use of SLI.

They couldn't compete for overclocking though and were bloody expensive and unreliable. You got a lucky one, I nearly went sli but was put off by the horror stories of the 680i. Though I think it was mainly its little brother that was the problem.

Quite frankly nvidia will make far more money now that many peoples boards will be sli compatible. So really its a money grab (though arn't all court cases between companies? haha). I'm guessing intel found a way of making their boards sli compatible without needing what nvidia had to offer?

MagicBoy · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:03

8igdave said:
Nvida have no reason to make chipsets. We have intel sli boards now and they will be a damn slight better and cheaper than nvidia's. Nvidia have never really made a good board.

I can see your point as regards performance rigs.

The low end integrated graphics products were way better than the Intel competition however.

matthab · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:05

8igdave said:
They couldn't compete for overclocking though and were bloody expensive and unreliable. You got a lucky one, I nearly went sli but was put off by the horror stories of the 680i. Though I think it was mainly its little brother that was the problem.

Quite frankly nvidia will make far more money now that many peoples boards will be sli compatible. So really its a money grab (though arn't all court cases between companies? haha). I'm guessing intel found a way of making their boards sli compatible without needing what nvidia had to offer?

I beleive the 680i held the OC record for sometime. It was competitively priced and offered SLI when at the time when intel boards couldn't do it.

Ive always maintained my 680i has gone the distance because the 1st day i had it I removed the chipset heat sinks and put MX-2 TIM on it.

MumboJumbo · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:11

Maybe I am mistaken then. I remeber being told the 680i had some trouble with the quads. Perhaps i'm thinking of something else.

matthab · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:13

8igdave said:
Maybe I am mistaken then. I remeber being told the 680i had some trouble with the quads. Perhaps i'm thinking of something else.

Indeed it did. I had my original swapped out from Germany, so no downtime.

Owenb · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:21

The big news is that Intel will be using Nvidia GPU in it's CPU over the next few years. So Intel's inability to make a proper GPU has saved Nvidia!

MikeHunt79 · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:24

Is there a similar licence for crossfire?

Minipeace · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:33

The payout has helped Nvidias shares to rise. Nvidia has had a rough ride so this has helped them.

Intel have also paid AMD the same http://www.physorg.com/news179427430.html

As intel is huge and through stocks they can keep both AMD and Nvidia afloat by using the stock market for a financial gain for them all.

muon · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:37

Minipeace said:
The payout has helped Nvidias shares to rise. Nvidia has had a rough ride so this has helped them.

Intel have also paid AMD the same http://www.physorg.com/news179427430.html

As intel is huge and through stocks they can keep both AMD and Nvidia afloat by using the stock market for a financial gain for them all.

December 2009.

I was about to say, Larrabee was cancelled ages ago.

edit:

You mean the payoff. That was regarding x86/x64 agreements. I wonder what nvidia was paid for though.

Minipeace · 11 Jan 2011 at 00:56

I believe its a great way to keep strength within a tightly knit community. The aim to to secure the market by means of manipulation.
Very much like politics where each party is helping each other out but give the illusion that they are divided.

mmj_uk · 11 Jan 2011 at 01:04

NVidia won't be re-entering the motherboard market:

Link:

One of the products that NVIDIA will not be making as a result of the settlement is an Intel-compatible chipset. Jen-Hsuan made it clear that the company has stated that it has no plans to produce any more Intel-compatible chipsets, and despite settling the DMI bus licensing dispute that shut NVIDIA out of the Intel chipset market, the GPU maker is sticking to its guns.

They've swapped a lot of patents, so we'll probably see Intel CPU's with better onboard GPU's and NVidia taking on the ARM processor market in a big way...

"We have no intentions of building x86 processors," he stated, before explaining that Project Denver represents the future of processor efforts at NVDIA. "Our intention is to capitalize on the growing popularity of ARM processors... We've always felt that building yet another x86 processor when the world is a-flood with them is a pointless exercise." NVIDIA wants to build "the processor of the future," he said.

MADEinSTOKE · 11 Jan 2011 at 13:23

8igdave said:
Nvida have no reason to make chipsets. We have intel sli boards now and they will be a damn slight better and cheaper than nvidia's. Nvidia have never really made a good board.

NF4 was a cracking board

core2core · 11 Jan 2011 at 13:43

I am glad Nvida don't make chipsets anymore. They are a pile of crap. You have nothing but problems with drivers and chipset issues. I would never buy another motherboard, with a Nvida chipset. My current one is bad enough.

Ch3m1c4L · 11 Jan 2011 at 14:16

I like my nvidia chipset, at the same time as hating it (more for asus **** than the chipset itself)

If you read the article it tells you its all about patents, in the same way in 2004 they did a similar agreement so intel could make better IGP's, they are just doing it again. Its not going to be a massive jump in IGP performance, just a continuation of the evolution of their IGP's

Vince · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:51

8igdave said:
Nvida have no reason to make chipsets. We have intel sli boards now and they will be a damn slight better and cheaper than nvidia's. Nvidia have never really made a good board.

Ahh you forgot the abit NF7-S Rev2 awesome board for overclocking amd bartons back in the day

Had some sweet features as well for its day.

the1gooner · 11 Jan 2011 at 23:15

VinceB1 said:
Ahh you forgot the abit NF7-S Rev2 awesome board for overclocking amd bartons back in the day Had some sweet features as well for its day.

I still got mine running with a mobile barton 2500+ cooled by a thermalright sk-7

One of the best boards ever made.

DrBombcrater · 11 Jan 2011 at 23:17

Owenb said:
The big news is that Intel will be using Nvidia GPU in it's CPU over the next few years. So Intel's inability to make a proper GPU has saved Nvidia!

Nope, not happening. Intel is licensing NVidia's patents and technology, not any actual GPU designs. Part of the reason Intel's IGPs and CPU graphics cores are so primitive is that they've had to avoid doing anything covered by an NVidia patent, and it's very hard to do that and produce a competitive design. What this agreement does is remove patents as an issue because Intel now has access to both AMD's and NVidia's patents.

Personally I read this is a tacit admission by NVidia that they see their future lying elsewhere than GPUs. Patent cross-licensing with Intel makes no sense at all from the perspective of a GPU designer - Intel's fabrication facilities, vast R&D budget and ability to build a GPU into every processor they sell is, long-term, enough to crush a (comparatively) small GPU designer like NVidia. And that's without factoring in the impact of AMD's fusion parts on the GPU market, which is going to be very major indeed.