Launching the “Case For Innovation” Portal

By Ned Finkle
On Mar 12 2010 in Corporate
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We at NVIDIA today launched a new portal where we will be bringing together information related to the anti-trust litigation that has been brought against Intel around the world.

Called “The Case For Innovation,” the site is a one-stop resource for those looking to get up to speed on actions being brought against Intel for impeding competition, stifling innovation and for not living up to its agreements which were filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the New York Attorney General, as well as NVIDIA itself. The site also provides background about cases brought by the European Commission, Japan and Korea.

The site describes the technology at stake in these cases. It describes the legal arguments. It collects key media coverage on the topic. And it contains key legal filings against Intel, which include lots of colorful detail. If you don’t have time to read them, feel free to listen to them via podcasts, which are also available there.

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asdads

I think this is key and you should fix it (elaborate):
Q. Will NVIDIA will discontinue its ION line?
A. No, our next-generation ION products are discrete GPUs that attach to Intel CPUs via PCI Express.
Isn’t this is key because Intel has changed Nvidia’s entire direction with the ION product because of the whole chipset issue? The real answer should include something like:
A. No, but our next-generation ION product is completely different from the original. The original was a chipset and GPU. The new product is only a GPU because [etc]
Maybe I’m wrong though
Vica Armido

Just like NVidia is protecting it’s own IP, so do others. Why isn’t SLI available on every platform that supports at least 2(two) PCI Express slots? Why can’t I use my old GeForce 8800GTS for PhysX acceleration together with my HD5870 card? While NVidia is complaining about Intel, NVidia should look in the mirror and ask itself if it’s any different, or if it does anything different than Intel? NVidia, before you sue others, you should lead by example. Just my 2 cents.
Singh

I ll start with Nvidia Optimus, really good piece of tech. Congrats Nvidia for this innovations, totally a win-win for most. From some time i am feeling that Intel is eliminating competition where it cant compete. By not licensing QPI to other vendors Intel is effectively creating monopoly in chipset market for intel processors.
Ion is a great system and i have good expectations from Ion2. Nvidia has found good solution to implement Ion2 as discrete GPU but this cant continue longer. With its practices Intel want to eliminate everyone from chipset market for there processors. Competition is required for continued innovation, had Nvidia not in chipset market for Intel processors we will still be paying $200 or more for Intel 915 chipsets. Past has shown that Intel only wakeup when there competitor is doing better in market, otherwise they used to sleep and enjoy a lot. And now Intel want to eliminate its competition so that they can sell same technology for at least a decade.
I know Intel is not happy with there failure in GPU department, they created a lot of noise about there Larrabee and they had great expectations from it but it failed. Intel guys please understand that sometimes things dont work and its ok if they dont work just try a little harder. It dont mean that then rather than trying harder you start positioning your guns towards your competitors.
This type of practices should be investigated and responsible guys should be fined or better to say they must be denied access to market for some specific time. Intel has lot of cash and they can buy anything so a better way should be to counter there practices. Ex I live in India and when a channel broadcast inappropriate content, rather than fining the channel authorities just put that channel offline for couple of weeks and to me its a good thing. So raher than fining Intel there must be some other way, they actually earn a lot from there practices than they pay fine; if any.
I am with Nvidia for its fight against Intel and the only reason is because Intel is wrong. If i dont support this case today i am sure i will not get good technology in future. Also i am not happy with AMD, they good money from Intel to settle things at there own, very inappropriate. Hope US authorities can prove there case against Intel without AMD’s support.
Drew Henry @NVIDIA

Thanks for the comment, Vica. Perhaps you are not aware that SLI is now available on Intel chipset based motherboards. We provided this in response to clear market demand from both our motherboard partners and from end users. Regarding PhysX support on someone else’s GPUs, we’ve stated publically many times that the test, validation and QA expenses that we would have to incur are too great for the business return we would get.