Intel's motives
So NVIDIA seems essentially to be accusing Intel of trying to use its position as the dominant supplier of CPUs to inhibit technology trends that don't fit in with its own commercial aims.
Intel would probably counter that it's merely protecting its own intellectual property (IP), which it has not only the right but the obligation to its shareholders to do.
Desai was having none of it. "This is not a protecting IP issue, it's an Atom issue," he said. "If we lose the court case it will be bad for us but also bad for the consumer - where does it stop?"
It's difficult to come to any concrete conclusions about this disagreement without access to the relevant documents, but what NVIDIA is trying to get us to question are Intel's motives.
What do you think - why might Intel want to stop NVIDIA continuing to make chipsets for its processors? Is there anything wrong with a company trying to protect its own IP? Let us know in the HEXUS.community.
