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Nvidia, Intel reach license agreement.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004

By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 20--Nvidia and Intel announced an agreement Friday to license technology to each other after years of difficult negotiations.

Under the deal, Nvidia for the first time will have the right to make chipsets for personal computers that use Intel microprocessors. That opens up a huge market to Nvidia, which to date only has made chipsets for PCs using Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors.

Chipsets are pairs of chips in computers that are like traffic cops inside the PC, routing data to memory or to the microprocessor. In many low-cost machines, graphics chips are integrated into the chipset.

"The timing was right for this agreement," said...

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