Links for Wednesday February 18^th, 2009

• Electronista | NVIDIA fights Intel over Core i7 chipset license: Intel has been steadily eliminating chipset vendors for its CPUs -- I believe that Nvidia is the last. While I hope that Nvidia wins this case, I'm not too sure that they will. Since Apple has made a major committment to Nvidia chipsets -- maybe they'll pressure Intel to grant Nvidia the license.

• Content Owners Force Hulu To Kneecap Boxee: Lame -- I just hacked AppleTV about a week ago to add Boxee, and have been enjoying Hulu on Rushabh's big screen. While the performance of some flash content on the low-powered AppleTV isn't great, most shows are watchable. It's too bad that I'm losing this functionality -- I'll just have to go back to ignoring Hulu, which is what I pretty-much what I did pre-Boxee.

• TidBITS: Liquid Submersion Indicators Reveal Accidental Dips: Apple is being lame here -- instead of trying to catch customers who accidentally damanged their equipment, Apple should just offer a no-fault extended warranty, similar to what Lenovo offers.