exactlyI cannot believe that this comes up every time. The licensing deal is about patents, not intellectual property. The current deal is set to expire on March, 2017 between Intel and Nvidia. It's all about avoiding lawsuits between these tech giants. Intel may license gfx patents from AMD from now on.
That makes more sense.I cannot believe that this comes up every time. The licensing deal is about patents, not intellectual property. The current deal is set to expire on March, 2017 between Intel and Nvidia. It's all about avoiding lawsuits between these tech giants. Intel may license gfx patents from AMD from now on.
I cannot believe that this comes up every time. The licensing deal is about patents, not intellectual property. The current deal is set to expire on March, 2017 between Intel and Nvidia. It's all about avoiding lawsuits between these tech giants. Intel may license gfx patents from AMD from now on.
Yes, they are.Aren't patents intellectual property?
Amazing news if true, will give AMD a massive financial boost in order for them to turn the tides on NVIDIA. Their market share will explode also (many Intel IGPU's in use on steam hardware survey etc!).
Fantastic
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Amd is 9.45 todayI don't think the deal is worth as much as people expect. Nvidia got $1.5billion over 5 years as part of a settlement in a lawsuit. $500million over 5 years to AMD would be more realistic. Still money that AMD desperately needs.
Patents are intellectual propertyI cannot believe that this comes up every time. The licensing deal is about patents, not intellectual property. The current deal is set to expire on March, 2017 between Intel and Nvidia. It's all about avoiding lawsuits between these tech giants. Intel may license gfx patents from AMD from now on.
Imagine a Polaris 10 manufactured on the latest Intel 14nm process.. *drools*
They're the same thing. I suspect what you mean is that Intel won't be putting AMD GPUs inside their CPUs.The licensing deal is about patents, not intellectual property.
I very much doubt this - after all, if Intel has been designing iGPUs for years under the licence of an Nvidia patent deal, what says they'd be able to continue using the same designs under an AMD deal? Different patents cover different things/ideas/implementations, after all. You can't just pick an choose, you have to license what you actually need.
That's probably right to a certain extent, but specifics matter. Nvidia and AMD have cross-licensing deals too, after all. Intel would need to license patents relevant to their specific implementations, regardless of which company holds these. I very much doubt the cross-licensing deals allow for extending the patents to third parties, which almost necessitates deals with both companies - unless they realize that competition is healthy and decide not to be assholes (unless they spot obvious stealing).It's more about providing a defensive shield. NVidia wouldn't be able to sue Intel without being counter-sued by AMD, ending up with a costly patent war that probably doesn't benefit anyone apart from the lawyers, and lots of invalidated patents. (Look at the mess that was the NVidia-Samsung lawsuit for example.)
I cannot believe that this comes up every time. The licensing deal is about patents, not intellectual property. The current deal is set to expire on March, 2017 between Intel and Nvidia. It's all about avoiding lawsuits between these tech giants. Intel may license gfx patents from AMD from now on.
Intel isn't dumping Nvidia in terms of IP. It would also be impossible due to the product pipelines even if we imaged they did. Intel may simply license AMD IP as well as Nvidia to give its engineers and developers more freedom in terms of IP restrictions.
We don't know what Intel will do; we'll have to wait and see.
True, there may not be any AMD licensing deal. But they cant dump Nvidia when they use their IP.