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kureshii:
Article on Engadget.

tl;dr:

--- Quote ---We will continue to innovate integrated solutions for Intel's FSB architecture. We firmly believe that this market has a long healthy life ahead. But because of Intel's improper claims to customers and the market that we aren't licensed to the new DMI bus and its unfair business tactics, it is effectively impossible for us to market chipsets for future CPUs. So, until we resolve this matter in court next year, we'll postpone further chipset investments for Intel DMI CPUs.
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Yeah, alright, I can understand that it's just business... but that's really an asshat move on Intel's part. I'll withhold further judgement until I hear their side of the story.

Xtras:
Lol, for two companies whose products supposedly go very well together, Intel and Nvidia sure do have a lot of quarrels.  ;D

While Intel is very likely to remain dominant, I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia gets overtaken by ATI. They still haven't released any of the 45nm technology that I have been waiting for... >:(
edit:
Sorry. Kureshii is right, 40nm.

kureshii:
45nm? Or do you mean 40nm...

Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) Nvidia's market share has actually grown. Personally, I'm glad they're thinking of the small-footprint PC market as well, as evidenced by their conceptualisation of the ION platform. ION's performance shows how well a weak CPU paired with a GPU can do for HD playback. It's too bad Intel doesn't want to tango with them...

IMO Nvidia has the bigger picture in mind; both in terms of the other market segments, as well as in GPGPU computing. ATi makes cards mainly for gaming (good price for performance, for gaming-specialised needs), while Nvidia seems to be heading towards a computing-on-GPU direction. In the GPGPU field, Nvidia has released drivers for CUDA C, CUDA Fortran (released by Portland group for license-owners only), OpenCL and DirectCompute. That's quite a list.

ATi, on the other hand, only has BrookGPU so far, and their OpenCL drivers and SDK are released only to selected developers.

[edit] I just noticed that AMD actually has a "GPU'd" version of their ACML (AMD Core Math Library); that's pretty interesting, since accelerating applications doesn't get much easier than that. Just compile your app with their ACML-GPU and it's good to go (theoretically). Of course, I am only speaking about scientific simulations and things that actually use these math libraries, and not the usual generic apps... I might pick up an old 48XX series card to try this out.

kostya:
The topic name is way off. The article only talks about nVidia stopping development of i7 chip sets. They will continue developing chip sets for AMD CPUs and other Intel CPUs. I seriously doubt that they will leave the market. I did an internship with the nVidia chip set group last winter. They were developing cool new things to blow the competition away.

relic2279:
If the courts rule in intel's favor, I wonder how much that would hurt nvidia. If it's significant enough, I could see intel buying nvidia like ATI and AMD.

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