As per the new six year cross-licensing agreement between the companies, Intel will be paying a portion of the settlement for each of those six years - $300mil on January 18 th of this year, another $300mil on 20, followed by $200mil in 2014-2016. Notably, this is not a lump sum but rather will be paid in installments. This is larger than the EU fine ($1.45bil) and larger than AMD’s cash payout ($1.25bil). Intel will be paying NVIDIA a total of 1.5 billion dollars as part of the terms of the settlement. The biggest (or at least, least ignorable) component of the settlement is a cash settlement between Intel and NVIDIA. Officially both sides are settling their differences and dropping their suits, however the terms of the settlement look to be in NVIDIA’s favor versus Intel’s favor. As was the case with the AMD/Intel settlement, today’s settlement with NVIDIA paints Intel as being the loser in the proceedings.
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