Intel's Intentions [LWN.net]

Intel's Intentions

Posted Feb 14, 2007 10:37 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Intel's Intentions by drag
Parent article: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

> A curious artifact of history is that around about the time Nvidia
> announced it's contract with Microsoft to produce the graphics for Xbox,
> and around about the time ATI announced it's contract for Xbox360, was
> around about the time they closed up tight against Linux. I don't know
> if that indicates anything or not.

Well, as MS was supposedly involved with technical stuff concerning the
design of the GPU's, they must have made the deal to keep
their 'intellectual property' closed, hence ATI and NVIDIA can't release
all their drivers for free anymore.

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Intel's Intentions

Posted Feb 14, 2007 12:07 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Makes sense to me.

I wonder if AMD will make the effort to purge the Microsoft IP from their GPU designs then. I seem to remember reading something about it.

But since complex chips like that are designed two generations out then it's not something we are going to see happen very quickly, unfortunately.

I definately hope they get that 'IP' removed from their GPU designs before they start integrating them into their cpus!