Company AMD angry over its main competitors in the «processor» endeavors – the children of Santa Clara. The point is that after the scandal associated with the creation of Globalfoundaries, when Intel said that all contrary to this event in 2001 signed a treaty on the exchange of licenses, AMD has decided to establish another of its kind, a company called Advanced Technology Investment (ATIC).

Roughly speaking, the new company will work with the technologies owned by Intel, but by agreement of 2001 is allocated for use AMD, but not anyone else. AMD believes that if it will create a subsidiary company, the chicken company without any problems will be able to enjoy all the benefits of previously-bought AMD, including technologies for Intel.

Meanwhile, Intel, not long thinking, AMD has set an ultimatum: either AMD that it solves the new company, Intel, or annul the contract on the exchange of licenses.

According to AMD, all done under the agreement and claim her … Partner unfounded. Hopefully, Intel and AMD to settle the dispute without the assistance of the court.

One of the leaders of NVIDIA, namely – Chern-Hsun Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang), president and CEO of, said the media that he was in this year NVIDIA will release a platform Ion (Ion 2), which will support the Nano processor from VIA Technologies. The platform is already in development, Huang stressed.

Two companies – VIA and NVIDIA – to discuss cooperation since the beginning of 2008, as another leader otmteil NVIDIA, Drew Henry (Drew Henry), recently reported on joint work with VIA Technologies to develop an inexpensive platform for the PC. Henry stressed that the first PCs based on the Ion and the processor Intel Atom nettop will cost $ 299, which will be released until June of this year. A chipset Nano / GeForce 9400 NVIDIA and VIA company demonstrated last year at Computex 2008.