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VIRTUALISATION Suit, countersuit: Nvidia takes Intel to court
VIRTUALISATION Suit, countersuit: Nvidia takes Intel to court | Suit, countersuit: Nvidia takes Intel to court |
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| by Jake Widman | |
| Saturday, 28 March 2009 | |
  
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In February of this year, however, Intel filed a lawsuit claiming that the licensing agreement doesn't cover Intel's chips with integrated memory controllers, such as the Nehalem chip. If so, Nvidia would be barred from manufaturing products that work with Nehalem. Nvidia, for its part, claims that the original agreement does extend to Nehalem and other future Intel chips. In its countersuit, Nvidia alleges that Intel has "manufactured this licensing dispute as part of a calculated strategy to eliminate Nvidia as a competitive threat," using the allegations to "steer customers away from Nvidia." In a statement, Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said, "NVIDIA did not initiate this legal dispute. But we must defend ourselves and the rights we negotiated for when we provided Intel access to our valuable patents. Intel's actions are intended to block us from making use of the very license rights that they agreed to provide." The suit asks the court to declare that the licensing agreement applies to the Nehalm chip; enjoin Intel from claiming there's a dispute; and permit Nvidia to terminate Intel's rights to Nvidia's patents. |
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