Intel would have reached an agreement with AMD, which would allow Intel to continue integrating graphics into its processors.

According to some recent information, Intel would have made an agreement with AMD to license the company's graphics technologies. The information comes from Kyle Bennet, the editor-in-chief of HardOCP, who claims that they had already sealed the deal and it would be at the expense of AMD's biggest competitor, which is NVIDIA.

This has come after the rumors surrounding an agreement to integrate AMD graphics into Intel processors, which for months has been circulating around the network, after the agreement between Intel and NVIDIA came to an end.

The history between Intel and NVIDIA

It was the year 2011 when Intel signed a graphic license agreement with NVIDIA, for a sum of 1.5 billion dollars that established a five-year license. The funny thing is, Intel has never produced chips with NVIDIA graphics technology. On the other hand, there is no data that the new agreement with AMD, ends up assuming the entry of Radeon technology in the next chips of the blue company.

Regardless of whether in the end Intel processors come to integrate Radeon graphics, so the AMD agreement would mean that NVIDIA would not renew the original contract, which represented approximately 5% of the company's revenue. We also emphasize that this new agreement assumes that Intel will be safe from any potential future litigation for patent infringement.

Intel patent to protect money now for AMD

This new graphics license agreement, like the original, primarily, is Intel's protection against the claim of patent infringement. The deal that was initially signed with NVIDIA in 2011, was actually to settle a lawsuit brought by NVIDIA over the claim regarding patent infringement.

AMD and NVIDIA are characterized by having a massive portfolio of patents related to the development of different graphic technologies during the last decades. Due to the complexity of today's graphics chips, for any other company that wants to build their own graphics, they would be in serious trouble in the legal field. The solution to get out of legal problems unscathed is to make a graphic agreement with one of the two companies.

Source: wccftech