After years of providing premium chipsets for AMD Athlon family of processors NVIDIA Corp. has finally gained license to make core-logic products for central processing units by Intel Corp.. Even though not a lot of details are known currently, given Intel’s wide range of products, NVIDIA may significantly enhance its positions as a chipset designer.
The companies said they had signed a broad, multi-year patent cross-license agreement spanning multiple product lines and product generations. Additionally, the companies signed a multi-year chipset agreement for NVIDIA to license Intel’s front-side bus technology. This will enable NVIDIA to deliver its NVIDIA nForce platform technology on Intel-based systems.
“NVIDIA’s product portfolio offers exciting technology options to Intel customers, including our NVIDIA nForce platform and PCI Express-based SLI graphics technology solution,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of NVIDIA Corp.
During the Q3 2004 Intel Corp. supplied 62.1% of all chipsets shipped worldwide, VIA Technologies commanded 18.5% of the market, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. shipped 9.9% of core-logic products in Q3 2004, while ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corp. only occupied 4.5% and 4.2% of the market.
Source: X-bit Labs
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