Intel wielding patent stick to push back on rival

After more than two years of litigation, NVIDIA (NVIDIA, well known graphics and mobile processor manufacturers, headquartered in the United States) finally raised their hands to Intel.　　At an investor meeting last week, Nvidia CEO Huang said that while the chipset business was still a great opportunity for NVIDIA, it was impossible for Nvidia to retain the chipset business due to a dispute with Intel. Announcing the exit chipset business, Huang revealed that Nvidia would reorganize the company around the graphics card and the mobile processor. "The mobile chip business is expected to grow 10 times-fold and grow to $20 billion by 2015, while the graphics processor business will grow 75% to 7 billion dollars over the same period." Nvidia will be an unbeatable powerhouse. "Intel 1.5 billion U.S. dollars" to "persuade" for 2004 years, Intel allows Nvidia to produce the chipset for its processor, as well as the use of some of the NVIDIA patents in its chipset. Under Intel's authorization, NVIDIA's chipset business has grown rapidly and accounts for more than 30% of Nvidia revenue. However, by the year 2009, Intel filed a lawsuit against Nvidia, saying that the previous licensing agreement did not apply to the new processor later.　　With Intel's patent stick down, Nvidia's chipset business has shrunk sharply.　　In January this year, Intel and Nvidia reached a settlement, with public reports showing that two companies had signed a patent cross licensing agreement, and Intel had agreed to pay 1.5 billion dollars to Nvidia, and two companies had patented each other. However, Intel is willing to pay 1.5 billion of billions of dollars to NVIDIA, which is clearly not limited to patent cross licensing.　　From a recent Huang explanation of the reasons for exiting the chipset business, Intel is using USD 1.5 billion to "pay" for the NVIDIA exit chipset business. For Intel, the C PU and chipset business is a core interest, and if anyone poses a threat to both businesses, Intel will not hesitate to raise the patent stick. As early as in 1992, when Wang, the boss of Andy Grouff, told Intel that he wanted to develop the chipset, the latter warned her in a very serious way: "You shouldn't do this, Intel will be very strict with the chipset challenger." "Obviously, Grove not frighten Wang.　　Later, Granville in the chipset business flourished, Intel launched a lawsuit war, Granville chipset business plummeted. The use of patent sticks, Granville, SiS (SIS technology, Taiwan, China), M Atrox (the creation of graphics technology, Canada) has been in the chipset areas of the leading manufacturers have been defeated. The NVIDIA announcement of a complete exit from the chipset business area marks Intel's missing rival in the chipset market.　　Of the competitors, the only thing that poses a slight threat to Intel is the remaining a M D. The NVIDIA center of gravity shifts to mobile chips for Nvidia, quitting the chipset business may not be a bad thing. On the one hand, Nvidia obtained the Intel 1.5 billion beautyThe "Exit fee" of the yuan; On the other hand, in the explosive growth of mobile chip, Nvidia has gradually become a "dark horse" to be able to challenge the industry's giants Qualcomm and exit the chipset market, and Nvidia can focus on mobile chips. In addition, Nvidia's graphics cards are also opening up other markets, such as servers and supercomputers, other than PCs.　　Huang revealed that Nvidia will reorganize the company around the mobile processor and graphics card. As early as June 2008, Nvidia released the T Egra series processor, T Egra the biggest feature is the C Pu and G pu (graphics processing chips) and other core integration in a tiny chip, with small size, less power consumption, the advantages of outstanding computing ability.　　T Egra was launched by Samsung, Motorola, A C E R, ViewSonic, Toshiba and other major customers recognized, and soon in the mobile chip market (smartphones, tablets and so on) a firm footing, become a big shot with Qualcomm. Huang estimates that about 100 million devices will need to be moved this year, and that this number may be extended to 1 billion. The T-Egra chip has appeared in half the high-end an D-Ro ID smartphone and 7 0%A ndroid Tablet PCs. Huang also pointed out that, although the current a ndroid tablet computer sales compared to Apple is still very small, but four years later, they will occupy half of the. According to Huang, by 2015, the company's mobile chip business revenue will increase 10 times times to 20 billion U.S. dollars. By contrast, the graphics chip business revenue grew by only 75% to 7 billion dollars. "Any company that wants to succeed in computing must have its own mobile strategy." If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're stuck in the mire. "Interview: South all reporter Gao Lingyun intern Chaoqian share to: