By refusing to license the technology required for developing controllers/chipset for its Clarkdale and Arrendale CPUs, Intel prevents NVIDIA to access the market where its last product, the GeForce 9400M has been a hit and most likely pushed Intel to react in such a way. While this story will find an end in front of the court, NVIDIA has to find a new market as its chipset can only be found on AMD CPU-based hardware.
So, NVIDIA announced the end of its R&D teams dedicated to chipset development, and the creation of new department dedicated to the design and development of Tegra chips. This is now a team composed of 650 people that will be working on such chips, consider by NVIDIA CEO as more power than the A4 developed by Apple. With such move, NVIDIA will not be in direct competition with Intel, as the founder does not really work hard on developing ARM-based CPU; for the time being...
