Rambus sues Nvidia for patent infringement
Rambus is suing Nvidia, accusing the company of violating 17 Rambus-held patents on memory controllers. The suit was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
The Los Altos, Calif.-based company says that chipsets, graphics processers, and media communication processors across six different Nvidia product lines are illegally infringing. The patents held concern memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, and GDDR3 SDRAM.
Rambus is asking the court for an injunction (which would stop Nvidia from selling the products at issue), as well as monetary damages.
In a prepared statement, Rambus' head legal counsel, Tom Lavelle, said that Rambus has been attempting to get Nvidia to purchase a license for the patents, and the suit was the last resort. However, he said, Rambus hopes to settle the issue out of court.
CNET News is waiting to hear back from Nvidia for comment.
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Someone in the media is going to invest the time to educate themselves and then write a great expose series about the truth here. It will be easy to do because they'd only need to read transcripts of sworn testimony, trial and appelate decisions.
The story would include very unusual proceedings in the Federal Court in Richmond, VA, the FTC (what's new?), and the US DOJ Micron Amnesty Agreement.
It's absurd. There are no stones to turn 'cause it's all in the record!
Get your Pulitzer and expose the bastard liars who've been stealing Rambus IP for over 10 years.
Someone in the media is going to invest the time to educate themselves and then write a great expose series about the truth here. It will be easy to do because they'd only need to read transcripts of sworn testimony, trial and appelate decisions.
The story would include very unusual proceedings in the Federal Court in Richmond, VA, the FTC (what's new?), and the US DOJ Micron Amnesty Agreement.
It's absurd. There are no stones to turn 'cause it's all in the record!
Get your Pulitzer and expose the bastard liars who've been stealing Rambus IP for over 10 years.
It looks like they turned into patent trolls since Intel dropped them like the losers they are.
yes they turned into patent trolls, but you need to do much more research before you can say that. their first and lowest performance rd module can still beat the crap out of the best ddr module out there.. even at half capacity. and the reason intel dropped them is because they didn't release new products, and who can blame them, still looking at the poor performance ddr chips out there apparently there was no point to do so. intel made a financial call not a performance-wise decision. just like the idiots at apple dropping ibm processors (u can't imagine how pissed i am cuz of that).
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(15 Comments)What wrong with your Nvidia for?