Nvidia may not be licensed for future AMD chipsets

Nvidia does not benefit from a pleasant moment not in the businesses of tiddlywinks of mother chart at present. Not only Intel it went until continuing Nvidia after the company claimed that it had a licence to make chipsets for the core i7, but it maintaining glances as if Nvidia is not authorized to do with chipsets for future processors of AMD one or the other.

Betanews announces that vice-president Pat Patla of unit of company of the waiter of AMD claimed that �for 2010 advancing, the solutions leaving AMD will be AMD and on AMD currently.� The site indicates that Patla �did not believe that the situation of authorization between its company [AMD] and Nvidia would make it possible Nvidia to produce the chipsets which support future platforms of AMD.�

The comment was formulated with a press conference where AMD revealed its new six-core central processing units of treatment of �Istanbul� Opteron, as well as of future roadmaps of processor of Opteron which showed that plans released its 32nm �bulldozer� 16 central processing units of treatment of Opteron of core in 2011. According to betanews, Patla indicated that �we put 't intend to see new chipsets of Nvidia or Broadcom for achievements of waiter in 2010. But they will continue to support all the existing platforms advancing per 2010.

It is little clearly at present if Patla referred only to the platform of Opteron of AMD when it said that �the solutions leaving AMD will be AMD and on AMD�, or if this applies to the platforms of office of AMD as well. As well as to produce chipsets of SLI for AMD 'central processing units of treatment of office of S, Nvidia previously had a notable presence in platforms at end high of the work station of AMD too. The pro tiddlywinks 250 of the nForce 3 was made specifically for the central processing unit of treatment of Opteron of AMD, and Nvidia also developed the tiddlywinks of the nForce 680a SLI, which was the only tiddlywinks which supported the biprocesseuse platform of quadruple FX of AMD.

If it is filter indeed outside at the platform of office of AMD, then in Nvidia should have one difficult moment in the businesses of tiddlywinks. With the complaints of Intel that Nvidia does not have any licence to produce chipsets for central processing units of treatment of Intel with an integrated controller of memory, plus the plans of Intel to attach its central processing units of treatment of atom of �Pineview� to the chipsets of Intel with the integrated graphs, this would leave only Nvidia with the support for Nvidia old man and central processing units of treatment of AMD and Via the central processing unit of treatment of nano.

We asked AMD and Nvidia to comment on this, and to confirm if the restriction of licence applies just to the platform of Opteron of AMD, or with its platforms of office as well. We will give you an update as we have more information.