Originally Posted by
Dojo
AMD and nVidia own all of the graphics patents, which is why Intel's own GPUs suck. But the Intel/nVidia payoff agreement is done at the end of this year, and with all of the focus on AI, nVidia is the far bigger threat to Intel, which means Intel is very likely to collaborate with AMD... which is weird but the most logical outcome. That doesn't mean anything for us in the next few months, but if it should happen, we'll finally have true competition between AMD and Intel again, ala late 90s early 00s, and Intel won't be able to make due with incremental updates like the 7700K anymore.