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legal issues between Intel and VIA?

Sunny129

Sunny129

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I didn't exactly know what forum to put this in, but if anyone thinks i'll get better answers in another forum let me know. I was just wondering why VIA is in litigation with Intel over the permission to produce a chipset for the Pentium 4? Why won't Intel permit this? Did it all start with this P4 issue, or has there been tension between the two companies for a while now?
 
VIA bought S3 which had a license from intel to produce chipsets with integrated video, VIA then claimed this license also allowed chipsets without integrated video, which intel denies. Much lawyering ensues.

Intel has gotten very control-happy with regard to p4 chipsets, for example saying that SiS' 400 MHz FSB license didn't cover 533 MHz FSB chipsets. Why so control-happy? Because intel wants to maximize profits by selling as many 845/850 chipsets as it can, and wants to punish VIA for helping AMD compete against them. They were careful to patent everything they could think of so that SiS, VIA, nVidia would not be able to make a p4-compatible chipset without licenses from intel.

All part of being the Microsoft of CPU makers.
 
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