Related news indicates that as Intel's patent cross-licensing agreement with NVIDIA is set to expire at the end of March 2017, it may choose to sign a patent cross-licensing cooperation with AMD. This may mean that in the future, users of Intel processor products will have a greater chance of using AMD graphics cards.
As for the current partnership between Intel and NVIDIA, the two parties signed a cross-chain technology licensing agreement in 2011. As a result, many laptops or PC products using Intel processors will use NVIDIA's graphics cards, and NVIDIA can receive up to US$2 million in patent licensing fees from Intel each year.
However, while the agreement between Intel and NVIDIA is set to expire at the end of March 2017, Kyle Bennett, editor-in-chief of the HardOCP website, recently revealed that Intel has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with AMD, meaning that Intel processors will have better integration with AMD's Radeon series graphics cards in the future.
Although Intel continues to expand its integrated graphics technology research and development, it still cannot compete with NVIDIA or AMD, which have invested in graphics card layout for a long time. Therefore, it still needs to use an external graphics card to achieve better display effects.
In recent years, as Apple's Mac series has continued to cooperate with AMD to introduce AMD Radeon series graphics cards and has received a lot of praise, Intel may indeed choose to sign a long-term cooperation agreement with AMD to connect with the NVIDIA cooperation agreement that is about to end.
Currently, neither Intel nor AMD has responded to this, but if the two parties decide to work together, AMD will be able to obtain a lot of revenue from Intel, and it will also help grow its own graphics card product sales opportunities.
