Two of the biggest names in PC hardware are now at odds with one another in court. According to an Nvidia press release, Intel filed a lawsuit against Nvidia late on Monday, alleging that the two companies' current four-year-old chipset license agreement does not extend to Intel's upcoming CPUs with "integrated" memory controllers.

While Intel has yet to officially announce the lawsuit on their end, Nvidia is wasting no time slamming Intel for their actions. Nvidia's president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang states, "We are confident that our license, as negotiated, applies. At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU. This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business." Nvidia says it has been trying to talk with Intel about this issue for a year before Intel decided on their current actions.