ATI Strikes Broad Licensing Deal with Intel.

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ATI Technologies Inc. will move into the burgeoning, but low profit, market for integrated chip sets under a broad cross-licensing deal announced on Wednesday with Intel Corp.

Under the arrangement, ATI, the world's No. 1 supplier of graphics chips, and Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of microprocessors, are each granted rights to certain patents owned by the other company.

Markham, Ontario-based ATI has also negotiated the right to build integrated chip sets for Intel microprocessor platforms. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

 

[jsbush]

Didn't intel used to sell Intel motherboards with intergrated ATI video cards in them. I've sold a few of thouse boards. Thin desktop pc's that where pre built! With onboard everything.

 

[BFG10K]

It's good to see ATi taking an aggressive stance on competing with nVidia.

 

[edblor]

Thanks for the heads up bonkers!

Great news for ATI fans 4 sure! Watch out Nvidia, ATI is back and wants to reclaim their market share!! hehe

I personally am not worried about ATI and their corporate strategies. They have been in the vid card bizz for way too long to be naive about Nvidia and their strongarmed questionable business ethics...

ATI will be just fine and this is the first sign of that!!

Edblor