Nvidia $NVDA trading has been halted. News is that Nvidia has signed a 6 years cross licensing agreement with Intel and Intel will pay $NVDA $300 million each in 5 annual installments. This amount is in the range of what was expected and in line with earlier settlement between $INTC
 Intel Sandy Bridge Processor Some exuberance on NVIDIA (NVDA) is justified based on the news that Dell (DELL) will use a NVIDIA core in its phone. We do not argue that this development may be a game changer if NVIDIA can muster design wins with popular phone manufacturers. But
ALTR has been running up on the speculation of an ORCL buyout. As an electrical engineer, I am very familiar with the products of ALTR. There is no synergy between Altera’s products and Oracle’s strategy of acquiring semiconductor companies to enhance server technology. Possible buyout candidates include MIPS, AMD, ARMH