Nvidia forced to disable chipset PCI prefetch

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It has come to our attention that Nvidia has ended up in more product trouble, although this time it's with regards to Nvidia's chipset division and it's not related to a manufacturing issue, but rather a law suit from OPTi Inc.

As the story goes, Nvidia has infringed a patent regarding to PCI prefetch that OPTi holds and although OPTi no longer makes PC chips, they now license intellectual property. The problem in this case is that Nvidia didn't come out on agreeable terms with OPTi and has to remove the PCI prefetch feature from its chipsets.
 
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