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carmack drops his support for jen hsun huang and company

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First we had company payoffs, Gameworks, the 900s fraud, and dystopian drivers, and now Jen Hsun Huang and company are claiming they own everything related to GPUs including the GPU, programmable shaders, unified shaders, GPGPU programming and technology, and more.

John Carmack who is a very well known programmer, supporter of free information, and space enthusiast is publicly decrying all the green team lawsuits.

http://wccftech.com/carmack-nvidias-patent-lawsuit-disturbing/
 
Let’s briefly look at the first patent that Nvidia claims has been infringed upon, the GPU, which is short for graphics processing unit. That is any chip that can process graphics and display images on the screen according to Nvidia’s description. What the astute among you will notice here is that this description fits every possible graphics chip sold today in any device whether be it a phone a tablet a game console or a PC. If Samsung or Qualcomm are actively infringing on this patent then so is every single other graphics chip maker. Including ARM, AMD and Intel.

And what can be characterized as “disturbing” in this is that GPUs as described by Nvidia above have actually existed before the company was actually founded in the early nineties. You will notice similar issues with all the other mentioned technologies. Programmable shading, unified shaders and multithreaded parallel processing as described by Nvidia are all recognized industry wide definitions for established graphics standards, not proprietary technologies. Now the method by which Nvidia achieves this functionality is proprietary and that’s what’s actually patentable but not the functionality itself.
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wtf is this shit?

they own the gpu?

um no, no you don't apple.
 
The term GPU was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit, a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that are capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second". Rival ATI Technologies coined the term visual processing unit or VPU with the release of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.
 
HeXen said:
The term GPU was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit, a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that are capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second". Rival ATI Technologies coined the term visual processing unit or VPU with the release of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.
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That would concern trademark law not any real technology or patents.
 
HeXen said:
The term GPU was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit, a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that are capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second". Rival ATI Technologies coined the term visual processing unit or VPU with the release of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Rage Predates the GeForce by a number of years.

I'll bite: They have no chance of winning, so what do they hope to accomplish with this stunt?
 
HeXen said:
The term GPU was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit, a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that are capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second". Rival ATI Technologies coined the term visual processing unit or VPU with the release of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.
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As I recall, called theirs "VPU" before ATI. There was a review here on Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/905
 
Phynaz said:
Why should we care about Carmack?
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Why should we care about Nvidia? Why post in this thread at all?

But I guess it's answered in the first paragraph of the article:

For those of you who don’t recognize this name. John Carmack is the acting Chief Technology Officer at Oculus. He’s the co-founder of id Software. A studio that propelled PC gaming and defined the first person shooter genre with hallmark titles such as Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D the first ever first person shooter game.

Carmack is a huge Virtual Reality advocate and an outspoken proponent of Nvidia technologies. He starred Nvidia’s G-Sync launch event and took the stage with Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang to promote the technology when it debuted. Carmack publicly acknowledges his close relationship with Nvidia and has rarely worked to hide his fondness for the company.
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Care yet? No? Then get the fuck out.
 
Phynaz said:
Why should we care about Carmack?
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Wow. *tap tap tap* Is this thing broken? I detected no sarcasm.

Anyone on a technology or gaming forum who cluelessly doesn't care about Carmack should be ashamed. It's that ignorant.

He was sick when I went to QuakeCon2003 so I had to settle for talking to Tim Willits (no offense, Tim!). At least we got to discuss Doom3's release medium (CD vs. DVD).
 
Who?

Is Mr. Huang even remotely a well-known figure/name? Then why the hell can't you just mention nVidia instead of some vague "and company" association?
 
sphenodont said:
Who?

Is Mr. Huang even remotely a well-known figure/name? Then why the hell can't you just mention nVidia instead of some vague "and company" association?
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If you follow video cards then you know who he is. He tried to do the steve jobs thing for a while and come out waving video cards around.
 
JSt0rm said:
If you follow video cards then you know who he is. He tried to do the steve jobs thing for a while and come out waving video cards around.
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I follow video cards, I don't follow boring suits. I also don't know who runs AMD, Intel, HP, Samsung, Corsair, Microsoft, or pretty much any other tech company.

"Tried to do the Steve Jobs thing." Steve Jobs is dead. He should just be himself.
 
Rakehellion said:
I follow video cards, I don't follow boring suits. I also don't know who runs AMD, Intel, HP, Samsung, Corsair, Microsoft, or pretty much any other tech company.

"Tried to do the Steve Jobs thing." Steve Jobs is dead. He should just be himself.
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That was years ago. Steve jobs was still alive.
 
CZroe said:
Wow. *tap tap tap* Is this thing broken? I detected no sarcasm.

Anyone on a technology or gaming forum who cluelessly doesn't care about Carmack should be ashamed. It's that ignorant.

He was sick when I went to QuakeCon2003 so I had to settle for talking to Tim Willits (no offense, Tim!). At least we got to discuss Doom3's release medium (CD vs. DVD).
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Yup. John Carmack - "The human compiler." His games, game engines, contributions to the OpenGL graphics library, and general influence has played a huge part in the development of the GPU technology we use today.
 
JSt0rm said:
That was years ago. Steve jobs was still alive.
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Is this Huang? :awe:

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CZroe said:
Wow. *tap tap tap* Is this thing broken? I detected no sarcasm.

Anyone on a technology or gaming forum who cluelessly doesn't care about Carmack should be ashamed. It's that ignorant.

He was sick when I went to QuakeCon2003 so I had to settle for talking to Tim Willits (no offense, Tim!). At least we got to discuss Doom3's release medium (CD vs. DVD).
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Yay, 2003. About the last time he was relevant in gaming.
 
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