Some associate reported before the announcement of LGA 1366 platform that NVIDIA obtained a license for the use of QPI bus, but they planned to not release such chipset for core i7 processors . Collaboration between Intel and NVIDIA in this sphere resulted in the support of SLI technology by motherboard on base of Intel X58 chipset.
However, the mass processors LGA 1156 will receive a sufficient propagation in order to interest NVIDIA for the creation of chipset. The Graphic core and memory controller will move to the processor, but this does not prevent NVIDIA from the possibility to place a competing graphic core in the chipset. For creating such chipset NVIDIA has to get a license for the use of DMI bus . As explained associate, precisely, around this problem Intel and NVIDIA dispute , which even reached the stage of judicial trial.
NVIDIA representatives are assured that the license obtained in 2004 from Intel allow to create chipset for nehalem generation processors, and Intel company have an opposite view. In the opinion of Intel representatives , the existing license does not allow NVIDIA to create chipset for any Intel processors , which have the built-in memory controller . As explained NVIDIA representatives the whole problem start around the license for the use of DMI bus. Let us recall , that this bus connects will LGA 1156 processors and its chipset, and it will be also used by atom generation processors Pineview- M for analogous purposes.
From this side looks like Intel attempt to prevent NVIDIA from getting in the notebook segment , where the latter actively moves its ION platform and integrated chipset GeForce 9400M. Since the existing license does not forbid NVIDIA from the release of Intel processors chipset present generation, obstacle was placed for the following generation.
NVIDIA representatives noted that the company develops chipset for nehalem generation processors.