NVIDIA sues Intel right back over Nehalem chipset licensing
By Nilay Patel 
posted Mar 27th 2009 11:29AM
posted Mar 27th 2009 11:29AM
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...lawsuit "aver" Nehalem...
hohoho...
Why can't these two just co-exist.
Wait, does this mean Intel may lose its patent to x86?
No 0.o
No, they are fighting that on the other front with AMD. Soon this is gonna be a hardcore gangbang with Intel in the middle :p
This will be an interesting case to watch :)
Sorta related, I wonder if Nvidia will have the balls to even announce, let alone sell, that x86 chip they are secretly working on. They're hardly in Intel's good books now, can't see it being licensed :)
So much legal issues with Intel these days..
You guys really need to spruce up your editing staff... I say it again.
Heating up like an 8600m!
SNAP!
Mine's never gone past 80C...
My 9600 GT (a rehash of the 8600) runs near 90c.
Its pathetic, thanks for choosing failvidia again apple.
Come on now. Intel an NVIDIA need to go to bed together, have some wild and crazy makeup sex and get over the BS between then.
The rest of us are tired of your shenanigans.
cool
cool story bro
GPUs are the way of the future. These multi-core processors will be garbage soon, GPUs can already are the euivilent of a million core processors. It is all in the coding, software engineers need to start looking at things like CUDA.
CUDA is ass.
It's great if you want to do massive parallel calculations, but what if you want to parse an XML document, or convert data, write a simple peer2peer application, or make a facebook application? How the fuck does CUDA help you?
CPU/GPU power is pretty meaningless these days for most everyday tasks and everyday applications. Its super important with heavy number crunching, but thats only a small subset of what people want to do with their computers (like surfing for midget pr0n).
Why do you think these "netbooks" are so popular? For $200 you can get a dell that can send email, watch youtube, and look at naked pictures. Who needs a GPU for those tasks?
You've never written a single line of useful code if your life, have you?
I agree with Shenanigans. Intel makes some hot processors, but can't for it's life make a video chipset that doesn't suck gangrenous donkey balls. nVidia makes graphics chipsets that are hot, hip and now that pack a lot of Pow! Together is new hotness. Apart, as the fued between Intel and nVidia stamps on like the Montague's and Capulet's cries of impending doom arose from the Interwebs. One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear and terror possessed me then and I begged "angel of the lord, what are these tortured screams?" The angel said unto me, "these are the cries of the geeks. the cries of the geek."
Unless that chipset is the 8600M or the 8800GTS. In which case, then it's a POS and wrought with FAIL.
I like Nvidia, but their QC is ass.
You really think that Intel can't use it enormous resources and knowledge (having an R&D budget the size of AMD) to fight nVidia in the higher markets? you are aware that Intel have the largest gpu market share?
Beastage: It doesn't matter. Everytime they release a video chipset - it underwhelms. They have the "largest" share of integrated graphics, and integrated graphics has the largest share of PC's. Just because everyone uses it doesn't mean it can't suck. Everyone uses it, and it still sucks.
nVidia just makes better graphics chipsets both integrated and discrete. Sure, Intel has the consistency and has relatively small amounts of defects. Although, nVidia had only one-line of defective chips that were eventually replaced. But in performance, nVidia beats Intel by a mile.
These two should be in bed with each other right now ruling the market rather than fighting.
i think the scariest part is that all this nvidia and intel tech soon won't be for consumers in our PCs. Eventually everything will be in the could if OnLive is successful...
actually the more they fight the better off we are
"This video is not available in your country or domain" God dammit youtube!
use Tor
WTF is up with the video choice?
Maybe it's just his favorite movie.
Nvidia wants to be bought. So they're (Nvidia) is taking a Maneuver out of the SCO playbook. They Sue Intel in the hopes that Intel makes a bid for them and squashes the Lawsuit.
Nothing technically prevents to use a Core i7 with another chipset than the X58.
By now, we should have a choice.
Intel acts has a monopoly.
I just think this is all so hillarious. Meanwhile AMD is just sitting back and watching.
1) Intel is not going to buy nVidia. If you thought they were on the verge of anti-trust, now, they'd have no hope after that acquisition.
2) AMD is not "sitting back and watching." They are hemorrhaging cash left and right. They got stung in the ATi buyout as badly as Sprint did in the Nextel merger.
3) From everything I have witnessed, building and supporting Windows desktops and laptops, Intel produces the most reliable consumer-grade CPU's and motherboards, without exception. The companies who produce motherboards to nVidia's spec are not in the same league, as far as reliability is concerned.
Is it just me or does the nVidia logo look like it is facing the Intel logo, and punching it. ;-)