Intel to Pay NVIDIA Technology Licensing Fees of $1.5 Billion

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NVIDIA announced today that it has signed a new six-year cross-licensing agreement with Intel. For the future use of NVIDIA's technology, Intel will pay NVIDIA an aggregate of $1.5 billion in licensing fees payable in five annual installments, beginning Jan. 18, 2011. NVIDIA and Intel have also agreed to drop all outstanding legal disputes between them.

"This agreement signals a new era for NVIDIA," said Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's president and chief executive officer. "Our cross license with Intel reflects the substantial value of our visual and parallel computing technologies. It also underscores the importance of our inventions to the future of personal computing, as well as the expanding markets for mobile and cloud computing."
 
Probably nothing will come of this soon, besides possibly enabling some hw/sw features that were patented by nvidia and disabled/not used. Ivy Bridge and Haswell are already in the pipeline.

It will be nothing but good news when Intel finally has a programmable GPU because it will be about time. :p
 
nV? Sheesh! Didn't Intel learn anything from RAMBUS?

Suckers!
 
Maybe now all intel chipset will have SLI build in without the manufactures having to pay per board. Or maybe new Nvidia chipsets on their way.
 
Steve do you have a rough draft yet of when Nvidia sues intel or intel sues nvidia again?

lol... it always starts like this! then a few years later lawsuit
 
martinje said:
Maybe now all intel chipset will have SLI build in without the manufactures having to pay per board. Or maybe new Nvidia chipsets on their way.
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Nope and nope. There is no technology transfer in the agreement and both sides have explicitly said nvidia won't be making Intel chipsets.

SLI isn't a technical limitation. nvidia charges money to have the board recognized by the drivers to enable SLI. It's a pseudo key put into the BIOS.
 
I would say that Intel settled with Nvidia but as part of the settlement terms it was spun as a "licensing" fee to keep stock prices up. That or Intel just decided that they need more help on the graphics front.
 
Sounds like nvidia finally got intel by the balls and intel legal department finally caved. This is be interesting this allows nvidia to finally break into the old markets they were pushed out of.
 
And so, the prophecy is fulfilled. Intel finally gives in and admits they need outside help for its videochips.

Years ago I expected this deal to go through, Years... What took you so long Intel?

If you had only paid for ATi back in the day, AMD would probably be a squished bug... Oh wait nevermind - competition is healthy.
 
The Pentium 4 sucks

Intel: "Throw money at it"

AMD is suing us

Intel: "Throw money at them"

NVIDIA is suing us

Intel: "Throw money at them"

HardOCP forum members are poor

Intel: "sucks to be them"

Damn so close :p

It seems Intel has more than enough money to fix just about any problem. After the FTC ruling all NVIDIA could do was cash out of the chipset business.
 
Would be nice in 3 years to see integrated low end nVidia stuff in intel CPUs. Or maybe some optimized PhysX on the CPU via this deal. I'm not holding my breath, but it would be nice.

I don't see nVidia getting back in the chipset busness, with them all being integrated into the processor. Eventually almost everything will be integrated, the board makers will just be touting their power regulation, and layouts. Intel will lock the iron fist down on everything. It will be interesting to see how ARM plays the desktop market over the next 10 years. It could be cool to see the types of HTPC devices that are possible with the low power profile of newer ARM chips.
 
While I rarely ever buy nVidia products, I can say that they have a better survival instinct than most. They arn't some 3dfx or Matrox. Even ATI would have gone down given enough time. Discrete graphics have their place, but over time integrated will reach decent levels. I know we have been hearing this for years but it is an unavoidable fact of technology and eventually these CPUs will need to be better integrated to fuel sales. So at some point there will have to be a CPU with a mainstreme level GPU in it, and thus reserving stand-alone graphics adapters for the enthusiast and professional. They will probibly still release lower end GPUs just for the people that don't do a platform upgrade often but chances are the cost will be driven way down by the competition.

What does this have to do with nVidia's survival instinct? With Fermi they have been making moves that would make it behave more like a CPU and less like a GPU. Plus with their ARM license if windows for ARM takes off you can bet nVidia will have a full range of Tegra products to sell. You can argue the lack of software and speed, but the initial wave of purchases will be people who just want to browse the web, facebook, and send email. Then the software will come. The next iteration of the Cortex series (a15) will run at 2.5 GHZ with up to 8 cores. That dosn't exactly say "slouch" to me.

Will ARM abuse the market like intel has? If given the chance they all will, it is of-course the nature of a for-proffit publicly-traded company.
 
I am not biased, and have used both ATI and NVIDIA. As a pretty heavy gamer as a kid, I had huge FPS, or graphics issues with a STOCK ATI card... either that, or always had to change drivers back and forth when playing different games..... not fun.

I prefer nvidia. And I prefer Intel, but AMD has been quite a good competitor for years... If nvidia were to be taken over by Intel (like ATI was by AMD) than I think that would be great for gaming and pricing in general... no? We'd get cheaper/better researched graphics/gaming technology, and since the 2 companies are competing very rapidly there will always be good and *CHEAP* price drops.... correct me if I am wrong.
 
Under the new agreement, Intel will have continued access to NVIDIA's full range of patents. In return, NVIDIA will receive an aggregate of $1.5 billion in licensing fees, to be paid in annual installments, and retain use of Intel's patents, consistent with its existing six-year agreement with Intel.
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Said that, they might use those patents to make either CPU and/or GPU with little modification.

This will bring better intel CPU with integrated graphics.

This might bring Nvidia GPUs with better chipset to be used on gaming laptops which will far out perform current prediction rate of future portable PCs. specially on battery life considering it'll turn itself off while not gaming (instead of switching to on board intel graphics we have now) and use CPU itself.
 
Funny what a company will suddenly license when someone starts developing thier own cpu. :)

Also this is the only way intel can even get on the same stage as amd when fusion comes.
 
I wonder if charlie is smug or put out right now. he called this correctly (he is batting about 850 or better) but outside of Nvidia being shut out of the cpu/motherboard market this is pretty good news.
 
PRIME1 said:
The Pentium 4 sucks

Intel: "Throw money at it"

AMD is suing us

Intel: "Throw money at them"

NVIDIA is suing us

Intel: "Throw money at them"

HardOCP forum members are poor

Intel: "sucks to be them"

Damn so close :p

It seems Intel has more than enough money to fix just about any problem. After the FTC ruling all NVIDIA could do was cash out of the chipset business.
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Dou!
 
I don't get why intel doesn't just buy out nvidia, it would have to be cheaper over the long run and it would open intel to a already developed platform to build the raytrace graphics upon.
 
Nanan said:
I don't get why intel doesn't just buy out nvidia, it would have to be cheaper over the long run and it would open intel to a already developed platform to build the raytrace graphics upon.
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You can't just buy a company. The other company's shareholders / board of directors must agree to it. NVIDIA is in a excellent position now and going by market capital alone, NVIDIA is worth more than $12 billion, which is always just a base value for any potential buy-out, since usually the interested buyers pay more than that.
Long story short and even though Intel probably has $20 billion (or more) to spend on NVIDIA, NVIDIA just isn't interested. And if they continue to capitalize on the mobile and HPC market, NVIDIA will be even bigger than they are today, making a potential buy-out even less likely.
 
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