It is confirmed that Intel pays for AMD's graphics licensing, in order to avoid lawsuits and legal problems that would paralyze its processors in US customs.
During the last few hours it has been confirmed that Intel has paid AMD to license its graphics technologies from AMD. According to the medium Fudzilla, what was already a rumor a few months ago has now been validated. Intel will drop the license it had right now with NVIDIA and go on to license graphics from AMD. The problem is that some have interpreted this news as they have been most interested and have said that Intel integrated AMD graphics into their processors or that since they cannot with AMD, they are allied, but nothing is further from the truth.
To understand it you have to go back many years, specifically to the first processors with integrated graphics. Intel launched the first processors with integrated graphics and AMD quickly sued them for using some of its graphics technologies, which meant that Intel could not commercialize processors. This was settled in an agreement with AMD, where they would pay a good amount of money (it has never been known, but there is talk of a good handful of hundreds of millions of dollars), to withdraw the lawsuit and Intel to continue working.
Since then Intel has been jumping between AMD and NVIDIA. First they started with AMD and then they went to NVIDIA and now they go back to AMD. It is a simple strategy, to avoid the paralysis of its processors in the customs of the United States (where these types of demands are placed) and to be able to continue operating normally. What is being said to integrate AMD graphics, which seek to integrate the potential of Vega in their processors and others, are simply nonsense and gossip from some who all want to see Intel fall, something very complicated and that they would say and do what that it took to receive AMD's favor after losing it for being an idiot.
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The fringes of the agreement are currently unknown, but it is not unreasonable to speak of several billions of dollars, for Intel to continue developing and integrating graphics into its processors. It is true that this payment, which may be astronomical, is not so astronomical, because it guarantees the continuity of Intel's offers. The rumor, which started in early February, seems to have already become a reality.
good for amd with the money they will improve their products
In fact, what just ended with nVidia was more of a cross-patent agreement ... so there was an immediate rise in the power of Intel graphics and the emergence of Iris graphics, although all that has a long history going through Dimes and disagreements between the two companies going through the fact that Intel withdrew or rather no longer renewed the license of nVidia to have access to its sockets with what they manufactured motherboards with chipsets and integrated graphics nVidia ... a pity indeed. Regarding the demand that is mentioned almost at the beginning, it is said that Intel has not actually paid AMD or at least not in full, with the renewal this time I suppose they will settle accounts.