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> I kind of feel sorry for them Me too. Except they really did deserve it but not because they could not compete, but because instead of trying to help board m
by nashashmi 6y ago
> I kind of feel sorry for them
Me too. Except they really did deserve it but not because they could not compete, but because instead of trying to help board manufacturers making better computers they sued them.
Nvidia made an awesome chipset with a mini cpu made to handle basic instructions and used intel cpu for the high end computation. Intel sued them for not using their own Chipset.
The nvidia chip was a power saver in 2010. And it was the best of both worlds. Zotac put together their chipset and board into a mini itx pc. Fabless. Playing 1080p video.
That was the height of innovation and intel tried to keep a clamp on the market for fear of losing it.
And maybe that is the bottom line. They knew their product was dying. Their market was no longer going to grow. So they followed the 40% rule.
And tried to milk the market as much as they could.
Source. https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mainboards/zotac-ionitx-t-series https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mainboards/zotac-ionitx-t-s...
https://www.wargamer.com/articles/intel-sues-nvidia/ https://www.wargamer.com/articles/intel-sues-nvidia/