By Antone Gonsalves December 7, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating a licensing dispute between Intel and Nvidia, a maker of graphics processors. This follows up on the FTC investigating Intel business practices recently found illegal by the European Union. For more than three years, the FTC has been investigating antitrust allegations against Intel that have centered mostly around the company's business practices in competing against Advanced Micro Devices. However, Nvidia on Friday confirmed media reports that it has spoken to the FTC about Intel. "I can't comment any further," Nvidia spokesman Hector Marinez told InformationWeek. "We're referring callers to the FTC." Nvidia is battling Intel in a Delaware court over whether Nvidia's current license covers the new communications technology used in Intel's latest processors based on the Nehalem microarchitecture. The technology, known by the acronym DMI, is implemented directly in the processor; Intel plans to use it in future chips. The dispute is important because Nvidia needs access to the technology to integrate its graphics processors with Intel CPUs. Nvidia in October suspended development of chipsets for Intel processors that use DMI until the dispute is settled in court.
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