Intel begs to differ
Last week Intel’s representatives at Cebit have told us that
Nvidia could reach out and buy a chipset license. Intel and Nvidia obviously
have different opinions whether Nvidia can make future chipsets for Intel
QPI CPUs or not.
Nvidia believes that it has licences for all chipsets, while Intel
believes that Nvidia doesn’t have a license for QPI chipsets. Nvidia is happy
with its DMI license and there will be an Ion 2 chipset MCP89 by the end of the
year that will work with Atom, Pentium and Core 2 generation of CPUs but not
with any Nehalems.
Just as Intel didn’t believe that Via had a licence back in
2000, history is repeating and we hope that Nvidia will have better
luck than Via.
