Nvidia Threats It Could Ban Larrabee from Entering the Market.

Nvidia Corp. claims that it could terminate its cross-licensing agreement with Intel Corp., which would prevent the latter from launching its first discrete graphics processor in ten years. Besides, claims Nvidia, Intel utilizes Nvidia’s intellectual property in every integrated graphics core it ships.

Drew Henry, the head of Nvidia’s core-logic business, which future is under a big question mark since Intel does not allow the company to develop and sell chipsets compatible with microprocessors featuring built-in memory controllers, said in an interview that unlike his company, Intel continues to benefit from the cross-licensing agreement.