NVIDIA found guilty of patent infringement for 3 of Samsung's patents after NVIDIA accused Samsung o

[wickedplayer494]

[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/9875/itc-finds-nvidia-guilty-of-infringing-three-samsung-patents[/url]

[quote=Anandtech]An administrative law judge from the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday found that NVIDIA Corp. infringed several patents of Samsung Electronics. The judge ruled that NVIDIA’s graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chips (SoCs) infringed three fundamental patents that belong to Samsung. NVIDIA said that patents were outdated, but if the full agency finds that there was a violation, certain NVIDIA’s products could be banned in the U.S.

David P. Shaw, an administrative law judge from Washington D.C., found that NVIDIA infringed U.S. patents 6,147,385, 6,173,349 and 7,804,734. The patents cover an implementation of SRAM, a shared computer bus system with arbiter and a memory sub-system with a data strobe buffer. Some of the patents were granted back in the nineties and such inventions may be considered as fundamental technologies or may not be used at all by modern chips. One of the patents will expire next year, hence, it will not have any effect on NVIDIA’s business even though it was infringed.[/quote]

[Curls]

how embarrassing!

[Swilly]

Fucking 10 outta 10 Nvidia.

[editline]24th December 2015[/editline]

Like, how do you not get your ducks in a row before moving forward.

[SouthParkMGT]

No wonder Samsung partnered with AMD.

[Source]

Patents are stupid and need to be reformed anyway.

[pr00ch]

Patent wars are the most petty thing companies can do in big industry

[Chryseus]

Those patents are total bullshit, you shouldn't be able to patent basic electronic circuits.

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Chryseus;49386871]Those patents are total bullshit, you shouldn't be able to patent basic electronic circuits.[/QUOTE]

to be honest, looking at that trio of patents, they're actually fairly comprehensive and not just basic electronic circuits.