UNited States : Nvidia Suspends Chipset Development For Intel.Nvidia on Thursday said it will suspend development of chipsets for Intel's latest and future microprocessors, saying it's impossible to market the products in light of a licensing squabble squab·ble intr.v. squab·bled, squab·bling, squab·bles To engage in a disagreeable argument, usually over a trivial matter; wrangle. See Synonyms at argue. n. A noisy quarrel, usually about a trivial matter. between the two companies. Nvidia is battling Intel in a Delaware court over whether Nvidia's current license covers the new communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry used in Intel's latest processors based on the Nehalem microarchitecture. The technology, known by the acronym DMI (Desktop Management Interface) The first desktop management standard from the DMTF. Enabling PCs to be monitored from a central console, it was superseded by the DMTF's Common Information Model (see CIM). , is implemented directly in the processor; Intel plans to use it in future chips. Nvidia says Intel is improperly claiming to its customers and the market that Nvidia isn't licensed to the new DMI bus, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a statement sent by e-mail to InformationWeek. For that reason, "it is effectively impossible for us to market chipsets for future CPUs," the company said. "So, until we resolve this matter in court next year, we'll postpone further chipset investments for Intel DMI CPUs." Chipsets are used to connect a computer's main CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. to other parts of the system. Intel declined comment on Nvidia's action. "On their decision we have nothing to say," spokesman Chuck Mulloy told InformationWeek in an e-mail response to a query. "It's their decision." Intel insists that it asked the court to rule on the 2004 licensing agreement only after it became clear that the two sides could not find a solution to the two-year-old dispute. Intel is not seeking any damages and the court will likely hear the case next year. Nvidia in March countersued Intel in the same Delaware court, accusing Intel of breach of contract. Nvidia, which makes chips for processing graphics and video on a PC, also seeks termination of Intel's license to Nvidia's patent portfolio, including its 3-D and GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. technologies. Intel has been boosting the graphics capabilities in its chipsets for a while, encroaching on Nvidia's market in PCs, which have become increasingly focused on video, music, and other forms of entertainment. Nvidia, on the other hand, is trying to replace Intel chipsets. Register for Interop New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and see the full range of IT solutions to position your organization for growth. At the Jacob Javits Center, Nov. 16-20, 2009. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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