Nvidia could cancel Larrabee’s arrival in the market

Nvidia claims that Intel uses Nvidia’s Intellectual Property (IP) in currently shipping Integrated Graphics Processors (IGP) as a part of the cross licensing agreement with Intel. Nvidia also believes that Intel’s upcoming discrete Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), codenamed Larrabee would not be possible without the use of Nvidia’s IP. If Nvidia terminates its cross-licensing agreement with Intel, it could stop the Larrabee from entering the market. This was pointed out by Nvidia’s Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business in an interview with the website Digitimes.

Henry said that, “Nvidia did not want to bring this case to the courts, but was forced to do so after Intel suddenly filed its original suit in February. Both companies have acknowledged that they have been working for over a year to resolve the dispute privately, and later through arbitration. Nvidia has previously stated that it believes the success of its Ion platform (which Henry today interestingly defined as any of Nvidia’s MCP79- and MCP78-based chipsets for Intel CPU-series including Atom, Celeron and Core 2 – Ion originally only referred to chipsets designed for Atom CPUs for nettops and netbooks) was the main cause behind Intel filing the suit.”

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