Thursday, September 4th 2014
NVIDIA Files Complaints Against Samsung and Qualcomm for Patent Infringement
NVIDIA today announced that it has filed complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm at the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, alleging that the companies are both infringing NVIDIA GPU patents covering technology including programmable shading, unified shaders and multithreaded parallel processing.
The identified Samsung products include the Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 mobile phones; and the Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab 2 computer tablets. Most of these devices incorporate Qualcomm mobile processors -- including the Snapdragon S4, 400, 600, 800, 801 and 805. Others are powered by Samsung Exynos mobile chips, which incorporate ARM's Mali and Imagination Technologies' PowerVR GPU cores.
NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said: "As the world leader in visual computing, NVIDIA has invented technologies that are vital to mobile computing. We have the richest portfolio of computer graphics IP in the world, with 7,000 patents granted and pending, produced by the industry's best graphics engineers and backed by more than $9 billion in R&D.
"Our patented GPU inventions provide significant value to mobile devices. Samsung and Qualcomm have chosen to use these in their products without a license from us. We are asking the courts to determine infringement of NVIDIA's GPU patents by all graphics architectures used in Samsung's mobile products and to establish their licensing value."
A pioneer in computer graphics, NVIDIA invented the GPU. The graphics processing unit enables computers to generate and display images. It brings to life the beautiful graphics that shape how people enjoy their mobile devices and is fundamental to the rise of mobile computing. NVIDIA GPUs are some of the most complex processors ever created, requiring over a thousand engineering-years to create and containing more than 7 billion transistors.
The identified Samsung products include the Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 mobile phones; and the Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab 2 computer tablets. Most of these devices incorporate Qualcomm mobile processors -- including the Snapdragon S4, 400, 600, 800, 801 and 805. Others are powered by Samsung Exynos mobile chips, which incorporate ARM's Mali and Imagination Technologies' PowerVR GPU cores.
NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said: "As the world leader in visual computing, NVIDIA has invented technologies that are vital to mobile computing. We have the richest portfolio of computer graphics IP in the world, with 7,000 patents granted and pending, produced by the industry's best graphics engineers and backed by more than $9 billion in R&D.
"Our patented GPU inventions provide significant value to mobile devices. Samsung and Qualcomm have chosen to use these in their products without a license from us. We are asking the courts to determine infringement of NVIDIA's GPU patents by all graphics architectures used in Samsung's mobile products and to establish their licensing value."
A pioneer in computer graphics, NVIDIA invented the GPU. The graphics processing unit enables computers to generate and display images. It brings to life the beautiful graphics that shape how people enjoy their mobile devices and is fundamental to the rise of mobile computing. NVIDIA GPUs are some of the most complex processors ever created, requiring over a thousand engineering-years to create and containing more than 7 billion transistors.
108 Comments on NVIDIA Files Complaints Against Samsung and Qualcomm for Patent Infringement
Just look at this small town in Spain and how people can live if they are good and do want it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinaleda,_Spain
And I haven't said that monopoly is good but I have already read how some companies complain because of too much competition which limits their ability to invest.
However your troll skills are above par then most I've seen lately. You managed to drag in quiet a few people in your troll net. Ill have to keep an eye on you. I may have to take you in as an apprentice.
Just forget it and be a better person without this nonsense.
Agree?
History is literally littered with examples of this, yet you just flat out refuse to accept this fact. This alone astounds me.
Your posts are also totally and completely nonsensical. They either have literally nothing to do with the topic at hand (what does some town in Spain have to do with anything?), or show such incredible levels of cognitive dissonance that it just frankly stupifies me.
I'm done with you. You are clearly intentionally ignorant on the topic due to some misplaced and unnecessary hatred of a company, or you're just a damn troll. Either way, there's no point discussing any of this with you any further.
All patent litigation ended in 1997 the rest is literally Intel using back room deals and stacks of cash to persuade companies not to use AMD products.
Also AMD never sued Intel they only filed antitrust complaints.
Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first multi-thread unified shader GPU is AMD's Xenos i.e. 64 threads over 48 unified shader pipelines(1). Xenos' unified shader pipeline setup is 1 scalar + 1 SIMD4 instead of VLIW5.
1. From arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=381592
ATI Xenos: XBOX 360 Graphics Demystified
"XENOS is capable of processing 64 threads simultaneously, this is to make sure that all elements are being utilized and so there is minimal or no stalling of the graphics architecture"
AMD's Xenos (Xbox 360) was released before NVIDIA's GeForce 8800.
From news.priorsmart.com/advanced-micro-devices-v-lg-electronics-la2U/
AMD sues LG on GPU patents and LG uses ARM based SoC chipsets.
Filed on March 5, 2014.
From www.law360.com/articles/515848/amd-picks-patent-fight-with-lg-over-graphics-technology
AMD is using it's multithreaded shader GPU patents to sue LG.
"The allegedly infringing products include LG televisions, smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players, projectors and appliances that embody or practice the patented inventions"
LG should follow Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo in licensing AMD's IP blocks. NVIDIA should aim a little higher and sues all of Samsung's products that uses unified GPUs
AMD's multithreaded shader GPU patents
Multi-thread graphics processing system
www.law360.com/patents/7742053
Graphics processing architecture employing a unified shader
www.law360.com/patents/7327369
Graphics processing architecture employing a unified shader
www.law360.com/patents/6889332
Get some popcorn and watch this drama. It's very exciting on how this drama will end. Pity nvidia.
It will end up with a sterile PR release about licencing that won't mean anything to the average consumer OR a judgement voiding the complaint or awarding Nvidia a settlement - which unless you're an Nvidia shareholder won't affect the average consumer eitherI wouldn't worry, I doubt Nvidia entered into this is they thought they couldn't shoulder the legal bills. Worst case scenario: The jury find no case to answer - not as if the case will be primetime viewing - and they're out legal costs. Best case scenario for company shareholders: Qualcomm or Samsung shell out some bucks and buy Nvidia to make the problem go away and the graphics landscape looks a whole lot more interesting. Median case scenario: Nvidia gets some royalties - hardly a reason to pity them.
You want to pity anyone, then I'd suggest the twelve average Joe's on the jury who are about to spend possibly years becoming more acquainted with the 3D graphics pipeline and logic than they ever thought possible
Here is Nvidia's own blog topic regarding the case. As it is often said; there are always two sides to a story. I'm not saying Nvidia is in the right or wrong. I don't have a law degree and many of you here probably don't either. Lets just leave it to the courts.
EDIT: It seems something similar happened in the past between Intel and Nvidia. Intel agreed to pay $1.5 billion in exchange for access to Nvidia's patent portfolio. Seems Nvidia may have a leg to stand on afterall, even it is slightly different in circumstance. It may explain why Intels IGPs are getting better very quickly.
Ol' Charlie predicted that Nvidia wouldn't get a cent out of their last lawsuit - he was only out by 1.5 billion dollars. He is good for a laugh though. Did you know that the GPU market will be dead in a year?, and that the high end desktop graphics market actually died in 2012 ? If you didn't then you need to sign up for Charlie's special analysis - it's only a $1000, and you can get great insights like this:
"It consists of a general purpose RISC core controlling an array of custom SIMD floating point VLIW processors working in local banked memories".It depends on the relationship between Qualcomm and AMD i.e. Qualcomm may have to show any agreements with AMD. AMD is suing LG with AMD's multithreading unified shader GPU patents i.e. ARM loves to license it's IP to 3rd parties, but it doesn't readily do the reverse.
www.extremetech.com/computing/79472-amd-licenses-graphics-tech-to-QUALCOMM
Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it had agreed to license certain graphics technologies
“This agreement will bring AMD’s patented Unified Shader Architecture – first introduced in the Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming system – to QUALCOMM’s advanced Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets, potentially reaching many millions of mobile phone users,” AMD said in a statement.