It's likely Intel's already got cross-licensing agreements for everything they need, seeing as they already build GPUs. (Or is somehow everyone forgetting that

It's likely Intel's already got cross-licensing agreements for everything they need, seeing as they already build GPUs. (Or is somehow everyone forgetting that fact?) The case is probably that the Intel graphics team just decided they'd rather play against the big boys at nVidia and actually put enough cores on a chip to be a competitor, but in order to do that, they'd need to go off-chip for power and heat dissipation reasons. Hiring the guy from AMD helps you sell the new solution, since presumably that's what this guy's good at. The market's rife for being disrupted as it has been incredibly stagnant with nVidia and AMD's tit-for-tat for the past, well, decade.