Intel Takes nVidia To Court But May Play Nice Comments

"The other options we have are confidential at this time and we're not willing to discuss them."

that sounds massively over-ominous

I dunno about playing nice mate... If Intel win this and oh-so-generously negotiate a new deal for nVidia to continue using their architecture IP, they are either going to want a boat load more cash, and / or licensing of nVidia's GPU IP as a trade. They would essentially have carte blanche to demand whatever they want; nVidia need this licensing to continue being competitive.

I would think that another reason they would want to offer renegotiation after a legal victory is to stave off the US DoJ / EUC from stamping all over them with-anti trust legislation. I'd wager nVidia could at least build a case here given that Intel is currently cross-licensing a ton of x86 IP with their only major rival - AMD.