Computex 08: Despite the license
Nvidia's Director or PR, Derek Perez, has told Fudzilla that Intel actually won't let Nvidia make its Nforce chipset that will work with Intel's Nehalem generation of processors.
We confirmed this from Intel’s side, as well as other sources. Intel told us that there won't be an Nvidia's chipset for Nehalem. Nvidia will call this a "dispute between companies that they are trying to solve privately," but we believe it's much more than that.
We all know that Jensen, Nvidia’s CEO, officially stated that Intel stepped over the line with its comments about Nvidia. Ever since Nvidia entered into the chipset license with Intel, Graphzilla was concerned with Intel's history of competing, and they would be naive not to.
If you are old enough, you will remember that Intel killed VIA’s Pentium chipset business, even though VIA had a legitimate license. Intel was cool toward Nvidia until recently, up until the point when Intel realized that a graphics card might be used for more than gaming and after Nvidia’s bold decision to keep SLI for itself. It was a tough decision to go against Intel, but if Intel got the SLI for its X58 chipset or any previous Intel chipset, business would be good as dead, or things would get much tougher then they are for Nvidia.
At this point Intel simply doesn’t want to honor its commitments toward he chipset license deal.
Nvidia has confirmed that it is officially becoming a victim of what VIA, AMD and many other companies have felt for a long time, as Intel tends to repress competition when threatened by superior products and technologies.
Nvidia is not the cleanest player around, but without a Nehelem chipset their chipset business unit might actually suffer some heavy losses, and obviously this is not what Nvidia wants.
Despite the fact that Nvidia has a license, Intel simply decided to cut Nvidia off. Intel is playing dirty, as Nvidia is the only company that has something that Intel really wants and cannot get.
It’s a Catch-22 situation, as Nvdia wants SLI support for itself, while Intel would love to get SLI for its Nehalem chipset; but Nvidia refuses to give it away.
Intel was always the bully and they simply won't let Nvidia make Nehalem chipsets, which is not really a fair and honest way of playing the game. At least Jensen and the rest of Nvidia are not sitting and waiting for mercy; they are all locked and loaded for the biggest fight of their careers.
Let’s not forget that Nvidia said that, “Intel's attempt to unilaterally and publicly interpret a contract between the two companies is unprecedented and unsupportable both legally and commercially.”
This Nvidia vs Intel dispute is simply becoming more interesting by the hour.
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