Intel to pay $1.5bn in Nvidia settlement

Intel is close to winding up extensive legal disputes surrounding its microprocessor business following an agreement to pay rival chipmaker Nvidia $1.5bn.

However, Nvidia's own graphics processing units are but challenging Intel's chips as all-purpose processors and Nvidia is moving towards greater involvement in mobile computing, with chips based on the architecture of the UK's Arm, to put it more exactly than Intel's x86 processor designs.

The substantial value of our visual

"Our cross licence with Intel reflects the substantial value of our visual and parallel computing technologies. It as well underscores the importance of our inventions to the future of personal computing, as so then as the expanding markets for mobile and cloud computing."