How soon, how good, and how expensive Tegra 2 devices will be, unfortunately is likely to depend on litigation. Some of it started this morning when the FTC announced a new law suit, saying:
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...Intel is attempting to expand its monopoly into new markets, and the company has a "dangerous probability" of monopolizing the graphics processing unit market in addition to its current dominance in the market for central processor units. A graphics chip leader, Nvidia (
NVDA), filed a lawsuit against Intel in March on similar grounds."We applaud today's action by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission," said Nvidia spokesman Robert Sherbin. "We are particularly pleased to see scrutiny being placed on Intel's behavior toward GPUs, which have become an increasingly important part of the PC industry."
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Full article here:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/16/tech...ntel/index.htm
Article re Nvidia's suit here:
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune....adache-nvidia/