NVIDIA Files Complaints Against Samsung and Qualcomm for Patent Infringement

[Fluffmeister]

Glad it's over as it's not really Nvidia's style. And with Samsung being ordered to pay hundreds of millions in damages to Apple and Qualcomm getting done by the EU Antitrust commission we can finally return to normality.

 

[Xzibit]

If by normal you mean a clearer path for both Samsung and Qualcomm then yes.

This all started because no-one was interested in Nvidia tegra or its IP offering into the mobile market. It was Nvidias way of lashing out

It also could come back to haunt Nvidia since Samsung had already taken servers from Tegra and Qualcomm entering ARM server space too.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Maybe, maybe not. But last time I checked Nvidia were doing pretty well all things considered.

But if what you say is true, that isn't going to do AMD any favours either.

 

[HumanSmoke]

Maybe, maybe not. But last time I checked Nvidia were doing pretty well all things considered.
But if what you say is true, that isn't going to do AMD any favours either.

You would probably expect Qualcomm to follow the lead of the other ARM server companies in offering a GPGPU option, but I suspect that would require some heavy lifting by both QC and AMD. QC being an HSA member you would think would tend to lean heavily toward AMD if the toolchain is in place - and it might just have to since Qualcomm's main ARM server competition - Applied Micro and Cavium already have Nvidia GPU hardware qualified, and have been selling the GPGPU systems since Cavium added Tesla support back in March. Somehow I don't think Qualcomm will want to sit around twiddling its thumbs, especially with Avago/Broadcom about to get involved with Vulcan. Applied Micro and Cavium are pretty small fish, but Avago/Broadcom has the finances and the IP to make a bigger dent in the industry.

 

[john_]

Now we only have to see if Samsung's lawsuit will have the same luck, or if Nvidia in the end will have managed to score an own goal with this.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

You have no clue who you are talking to do you?

Don't be eating the newbs MM, you know what w1zzard told you about that.

 

[Xzibit]

Now we only have to see if Samsung's lawsuit will have the same luck, or if Nvidia in the end will have managed to score an own goal with this.

Bloomberg Business - Samsung Wins First Round in Graphics Patent Case Nvidia

A U.S. trade judge said Nvidia Corp. infringed Samsung Electronics Co. patents, offering another win for the Korean gear-maker in a running legal battle between the electronics companies.

 

[HumanSmoke]

Bloomberg Business - Samsung Wins First Round in Graphics Patent Case Nvidia

What a coincidence, Nvidia won their first round also.
Nvidia Wins Round One in Lawsuit Against Samsung and Qualcomm

 

[Xzibit]

What a coincidence, Nvidia won their first round also.
Nvidia Wins Round One in Lawsuit Against Samsung and Qualcomm

I pointed out the outcome to that trial on post #97. Judge rulling not a motion to proceed from a pretrial which you are referring to. Which was upheld and as noted. One of Nvidias patents was invalidated.