Nvidia puts Intel chipset development on hold

Due to the ongoing lawsuit over its licensing agreement with Intel, Nvidia has decided, or better yet, has been forced to freeze work on new chipsets for Intel-made processors. Back in February Intel sued Nvidia claiming that their contract does no give the GeForce maker the right to develop and sell chipsets for CPUs with integrated memory controllers. That pretty much means Nvidia won't have chipsets for Core i3, i5 or i7 (or i9 for that matter) CPUs. Sure, the Santa Clara's Green Goblin is fighting the licensing claims, but until the court has its say, no new Intel-oriented nForce chipset will be made. Nvidia is not giving up on chipsets though as it is currently preparing the ION 2 platform for FSB-based Intel CPUs (Atoms, Core 2 Duo/Quads).

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