Sunday, August 15th 2010
Rambus and NVIDIA Sign Patent License Agreement
Rambus Inc., one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, and NVIDIA, the worldwide leader in visual computing, today announced they have signed a patent license agreement related to certain memory controllers.
Under the agreement, Rambus has granted NVIDIA a patent license for certain memory controllers at a 1 percent royalty rate for SDR memory controllers and a 2 percent royalty rate for other memory controllers, including DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, LPDDR2, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and portions of GDDR5 memory controllers. NVIDIA has granted no licenses to Rambus.
The signed patent license agreement went into effect on August 12, 2010. The parties have not signed any releases of liability, nor dismissed any outstanding litigation between them.
The terms of the license are per the agreement that Rambus offers as part of its commitment with the European Commission. A sample of the Memory Controller License Agreement is available at this page.
Under the agreement, Rambus has granted NVIDIA a patent license for certain memory controllers at a 1 percent royalty rate for SDR memory controllers and a 2 percent royalty rate for other memory controllers, including DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, LPDDR2, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and portions of GDDR5 memory controllers. NVIDIA has granted no licenses to Rambus.
The signed patent license agreement went into effect on August 12, 2010. The parties have not signed any releases of liability, nor dismissed any outstanding litigation between them.
The terms of the license are per the agreement that Rambus offers as part of its commitment with the European Commission. A sample of the Memory Controller License Agreement is available at this page.
13 Comments on Rambus and NVIDIA Sign Patent License Agreement
Does this make Nvidia escaped a very dangerous situation?
These kind of stories come up all the time, its like the computer industry are a bunch of thieves and scam artists lol.
basically, they made patents, Nvidia breached em.
Whether ATI has deals with them or just doesnt use their patented designs, i dont know.
www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20100331154154_AMD_and_Rambus_Renew_Patent_License_Agreement.html
Basically, Rambus hasn't come up with anything new technology wise in years, and rely on lawsuits and patent ambushing to make money.:shadedshu
But on the flipside, NV aren't exactly pure as snow when it comes to it's own dealings (this reference to it's soldering problems on the older chips, 2007-2008) news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10245593-64.html
This is one of the reasons why Apple may have moved to ATI according to some sources.