Chicago (IL) - Nvidia announced today that it has responded to a court filing on Monday by Intel Corporation. The filing alleges that current licensing agreements in place between Nvidia and Intel do not cover future CPUs with integrated memory controllers, such as Nehalem. Nvidia's CEO responded that the court filing has more to do with the end of life cycle for CPU, and the beginning of life cycle for the GPU.
Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's president and CEO said, "We are confident that our license, as negotiated, applies. At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU. This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business."
In 2004, Nvidia entered into an agreement with Intel to bring chipset innovations to systems built around Intel's CPUs. In return for that agreement, Intel was able to license Nvidia's 3D, GPU and related compute patents.
Since that time, Nvidia has developed SLI, hybrid power and CUDA-based parallel processing on the GPU, greatly accelerating computational abilities of an otherwise CPU-only based system. In fact, today's GPU-accelerated parallel processors offer more than 1 Teraflop of computing performance, bringing the affordable supercomputer within most everybody's reach.
Nvidia has also stated that Intel's solutions are not helping the industry at all, citing that their ION platform with its two-chip solution delivers 10x the performance of Intel's three-chip solution. TG Daily has written several articles on that drama (and here).
According to Nvidia's press release:
Nvidia states they have been attempting to resolve this disagreement with Intel in a "fair and reasonable manner" for over a year. According to the press release, Nvidia's chipsets for Intel's current CPU and bus interface are not affected by the dispute. Nvidia will also continue to produce ION-based products for Intel's Atom processor.
Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's president and CEO said, "We are confident that our license, as negotiated, applies. At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU. This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business."
In 2004, Nvidia entered into an agreement with Intel to bring chipset innovations to systems built around Intel's CPUs. In return for that agreement, Intel was able to license Nvidia's 3D, GPU and related compute patents.
Since that time, Nvidia has developed SLI, hybrid power and CUDA-based parallel processing on the GPU, greatly accelerating computational abilities of an otherwise CPU-only based system. In fact, today's GPU-accelerated parallel processors offer more than 1 Teraflop of computing performance, bringing the affordable supercomputer within most everybody's reach.
Nvidia has also stated that Intel's solutions are not helping the industry at all, citing that their ION platform with its two-chip solution delivers 10x the performance of Intel's three-chip solution. TG Daily has written several articles on that drama (and here).
According to Nvidia's press release:
"The industry and consumers now count on innovations from NVIDIA. Microsoft recently endorsed ION because it offers consumers the first truly affordable premium Windows experience. Late last year Apple selected NVIDIA’s chipset for its entire new line of notebooks including the MacBook Classic, MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro. Today, companies like Acer, Alienware, Asus, Dell, Falcon Northwest, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, and Toshiba all ship exciting innovations created by NVIDIA as a result of its agreement with Intel."
Nvidia states they have been attempting to resolve this disagreement with Intel in a "fair and reasonable manner" for over a year. According to the press release, Nvidia's chipsets for Intel's current CPU and bus interface are not affected by the dispute. Nvidia will also continue to produce ION-based products for Intel's Atom processor.
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