Because I was curious I looked it up. The description in this “summary” (with no links) is pretty inaccurate IMO probably starting with the credited windows report piece which starts the misrepresentation of the patent from what I can see.
The patent appears to be a way to compensate for...
The goal of this was probably to give Nvidia and other purchasers a wake up call. I agree that the results seem. little biased but also point to an upcoming future where there are more good optio for acceleration. I doubt it will make nvidia change course much until they have to if that was the...
This isn’t designed to technically stop any and all usages of translation layers but to dissuade large commercial entities from adopting it as an official / commercial approach to accelerating CUDA workloads on non Nvidia hardware. If anything it will push people to support open layers instead...