Intel - ATI: Give Me Back Your Licence!

As one would have expected it, now that ATI belongs to AMD, Intel will not renew the license issued to ATI for the right to develop and manufacture Intel-compatible chipsets.
For ATI, it is worth US$100 million and it allows AMD to isolate Intel for the integrated chipset market.
Of course Intel develops its own graphical chipsets, but their performance levels can not compete with dedicated solutions provided by ATI or nVidia.
The previous scheme where Intel and ATI were partners to compete with the long partnership between AMD and nVidia might evolve in the coming months. Either Intel and nVidia will team up, or Intel will push R&D to develop more competitive integrated chipsets and/or GPUs. The latter has been rumoured to be already in action; the forthcoming GMAX3000 being the first result of such efforts.
JCJ