[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Does this say something about Intel problems with its efforts on Integrated graphics processors?

Perhaps not keeping up with AMD?

[NormsRevenge]

patent attorneys make pretty good dough.. and when ya have a herd of them, it can get kind of expensive after awhile keeping the herd fed.

[krb]

Oh man, looks like it’s time to switch to CUDA cards for my OpenCL development.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I knew it! The price of Nvidia has been steadily increasing over the past few months, from 10 to 20, accelerating significantly the past week or two. Sounds like there was a bit of a leak. I wonder what the options action looked like.

Since NVDA is roughly $1B in sales, a $1.5 Bn licensing deal over 6 years is very significant in terms of their profitability, and because it’s with Intel, competitively against their main rival ATI who is now owned by AMD.