Intel to Pay Nvidia $1,500,000,000 for Licensing

[jecastej]

Intel wanted to produce its own discrete GPUs and besides they partially succeeded with a better integrated GPU in Sandy Bridge it wasn't all they expected, now they may not want to buy Nvidia or either they can't, I am not sure, but sure they know they need Nvidia's technology. And I hope we consumers enjoy this agreement but on the other hand I also hope AMD stays healthy, competitive and relevant for the next decade as all this agreement again proves diversification, competition, smart long time investments are priceless for the industry and for us, consumers. I am learning to work with all brands.

 

[thearm]

LMAO This is pretty much a slap in the face to AMD and AMD fanboys.

 

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]meat81[/nom]Belardo:"SLi doesn't work on Intel or AMD/ATI chipsets because of nVidia, its NOT an AMD issue. Hence, CF (CrossFire) works on intel chipsets... but maynot work on Nvidia (I don't know if nVidia is blocking it or AMD is)."Since when does SLI not work on Intel Chipsets, your wrong. There are many x58 chipsets that are SLI and for AMD the last newer SLI capable chipset was the 980a. My point is that AMD with the release of the 890 chipset and future ones are not going to be SLI capable, Dont worry about CF, i am not talking about that in either post.[/citation]

Because Nvidia worked out a deal to let it work on the X58 chipsets WITHOUT having to have discrete Nvidia hardware on the board. They just had to pay a licensing fee. Thats why some motherboards the only difference is $30-$50 and SLI enabled. Its a LICENSING deal.

Hell, some of the motherboards I dealt with, the manufacturer said that they could unlock SLI with a bios fix, all we had to do was pay a licensing fee.

Nvidia wanted their hardware on the boards and held their breath till they turned blue. Hense, limited SLI support.

 

[knightofzeal]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

[Anik8]

Looks to me lyk some gifts before actual fight starts when project denver kicks in

 

[nurgletheunclean]

Pretty significant number. Nvidia is only worth $12B. Intel is 10x the company Nvidia is and 60x in terms of earnings. So for Intel to pay $1.5b for the licensing of what exactly is surprising.

Intel could easily buy Nvidia completely. Why not? My guess is once Intel has gleaned enough info from those patents, they won't need/want Nvidia anymore.

 

[K2N hater]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]I read somewhere else this improves the chances of manufacturers making mobos with AMD and SLI, so it is good news for me.[/citation]
In fact even unsupported/unlicensed motherboards can have SLI enabled. Just google it...

 

[lashton]

Intel must feel threatened by AMD fusiion line knowing that thier dscreet Graphics are terrible

 

[borisof007]

Wow, AMD CEO Resigns amid Nvidia getting $1.5 billion over 5 years from Intel.

 

[teodoreh]

[citation][nom]nurgletheunclean[/nom]Pretty significant number. Nvidia is only worth $12B. Intel is 10x the company Nvidia is and 60x in terms of earnings. So for Intel to pay $1.5b for the licensing of what exactly is surprising.Intel could easily buy Nvidia completely. Why not? My guess is once Intel has gleaned enough info from those patents, they won't need/want Nvidia anymore.[/citation]

Exactly. They don't need more monopoly law suits and don't care buying a section they already have. Now they have the much needed technology they failed to R&D, and NVidia sold itself in the devil and will start declining more and more when intel starts to produce "marvelous" VGA and embedded laptop chipsets. Once again, it's NVidia's death penalty..

 

[Guest]

AMD fanboys start rolling out with the usual (moneylovers, hot chipsets, etc)

Allow me to roll back the clock a couple months and the new graphics cards that came out go up a couple hundred dollars, and let's roll back a little further and see their cherished 4890s running up on 60c idle, 90c under load.

I.e stfu go fanboy somewhere else. Intel has been suited so many times, this is just paying the people they were going to be suited by later if they didn't pay now. Also, AMD can't seem to top Intel in designing processors, and can't seem to top NVidia in designing graphics chips. Seems they are number 2.

 

[rooket]

That is a lot of money. I hope that means they will pass it to the consumer in high end graphics. They are already doing a fairly decent job of that with the new GTX 470 I saw reviewed on TH. Keep up the good work Nvidia. I always buy Nvidia graphics whenever I can. I just wish my Xbox360, Wii, and Gamecube didn't push ATI on me, but it works.

 

[akula2]

I don't like Nvidia cards because they suck lot of power. Anyway, this deal makes sense for Intel to compete with AMD in the long run. Looks like it's a kinda bad new to AMD.

 

[victomofreality]

About time

 

[zkevwlu]

[citation][nom]nurgletheunclean[/nom]Pretty significant number. Nvidia is only worth $12B. Intel is 10x the company Nvidia is and 60x in terms of earnings. So for Intel to pay $1.5b for the licensing of what exactly is surprising.Intel could easily buy Nvidia completely. Why not? My guess is once Intel has gleaned enough info from those patents, they won't need/want Nvidia anymore.[/citation]

First of all, you can't just "buy" a 12-billion-dollar company by tossing them a wad of cash and tell them to scram. There are anti-hostile-takeover measures in place for every major corporation to prevent such things from happening. Second of all, the only reason to ever buy a company this size is if you believe their company is worth more than their market valuation. If not, you create no value by buying out their management, and as a result you end up being the loser paying the premium. Licensing deals like this is a far cheaper alternative to get what you want without paying 10 times the cost.