February 19th, 2009 | 
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Intel Corp. is suing partner NVIDIA to stop it from developing compatible chipsets for future generation Intel processors, a sign that the world’s largest chipmaker isn’t taking favorably to NVIDIA’s encroachment on the market, which has recently resulted in a loss of business from Apple.
In the complaint filed Monday in Delaware Chancery Court, Intel alleges that NVIDIA’s plans to develop chipsets for Intel’s emerging Nehalem microarchitecture will violate a patent-licensing agreement the two Santa Clara, Calif.-based companies signed back in 2004.
That agreement paved the way for NVIDIA’s MCP79 platform, a chipset compatible with Intel’s current-generation of Core processors, to find its way into Apple’s entire notebook family last October at Intel’s expense. However, Intel maintains that the agreement does not extend to new processors that include integrated memory functionality…
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Very interesting. This will surely change the future of computing, to an extent. Though Intel’s graphics processors are not very good compared to Nvidia’s, so I’d rather have an Nvidia.
Nvidia’s MCP79 chipset will be the first to support Atom CPUs, however the support will only apply to nettops during the initial period