Intel: ATI Bus License Still Go

[WelshBluebird]

Despite what the inquirer said on monday, ATI's bus license has not been pulled.

Intel insiders have confirmed to DailyTech that the license for ATI to manufacture chipsets for the Intel bus has not been revoked. ATI's board of directors recently approved a takeover bid from AMD which would make ATI a division of AMD if approved.

A report on The Inquirer yesterday claims "ATI had its chipset bus license pulled, or at least not renewed by Intel." Aside from the fact that it is probably not legal for Intel to retract the agreement, the cross-license agreement between Intel and ATI has not come up for review either. It's not impossible to fathom that Intel would opt to not renew the ATI cross-license agreement, but at this time the agreement is still working and will continue to function until an announcement is made by Intel and ATI.

link - http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3494

btw, I posted it here instead of in the thread about the takeover (or the comments bit on the news articles) as I doubt anyone would see it there.

[Smigit]

Yeah I read that 2 sentence article at the Enquirer and immediatly dismissed it. I cant see either AMD or Intel doing anything to lock eachother out like that.

edit: heres the article http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33225 . seems I wasnt exagerating when I said it was only 2 sentences....the article IS only 2 sentences. Reporting at its finist there. No source no substance no nothing.

Edited July 26, 2006 by Smigit

[ViperAFK]

inquirer = BS

[L3thal Veteran]

inquirer = BS

Could be, but they were the first ones to have this AMD-ATI rumor ;)

[viciv]

Could be, but they were the first ones to have this AMD-ATI rumor ;)

and they were also the first one to have the Intel-ATI rumor, right? :p

[L3thal Veteran]

and they were also the first one to have the Intel-ATI rumor, right? :p

;)