Intel and NVIDIA have a patent cross-licensing agreement at the time, which is still ongoing for all patents filed on or prior to March 31, 2017. https://www.s

Intel and NVIDIA have a patent cross-licensing agreement at the time, which is still ongoing for all patents filed on or prior to March 31, 2017. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000119312511005134/dex101.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000119312511... Patents here are used for mutual destruction in case one tries to sue the other, NVIDIA won't use them against AMD (and the reverse is true too) when regarding GPUs. Intel and AMD would however enforce their patents if NVIDIA tries to enter the x86 CPU market.