What was nvidia infringing on that AMD, Intel, and just about everyone else do not?
What was nvidia infringing on that AMD, Intel, and just about everyone else do not?
AMD uses pretty much the same types of RAM that nVidia does. RAMBUS is just biding its time.
Except they pay the royalties due to prior agreement with rambus. Nvidia chose not to pay or settle thus litigation
Didn't realize that. If AMD is already paying royalties then they've already paid up. I do know that sometimes a company who is suing another for patent infringement will wait to sue yet more companies down the line.
Someone posted the AMD news here, can't remember the exact numbers but $100 million over 5-7 years come to mind.
Reading up on the RAMBUS thing it really seems like others tried to steal their work. They knew RAMBUS were on the fringe of something big and tried to coax them to join JEDEC so they'd have to share their patents. But RAMBUS out smarted them and kept their patents.
The article about the FTC is bias since that is the article of the FTC's case which they were trying to prove - yet it was dismissed and further actions by the FTC were denied.
Funny how RAMBUS has been winning all its litigation fairly, even blowing the door open the DRAM fixing - yet they're the bad guys. Haha this forum is weird man.
the real problem with rambus is that they came out with all this cool technology but did nothing with it. they just wait for somebody to copy it so they can sue them. If they would just get bought out by sony, samsung, intel, ibm, etc like any honest, respectable patent-squatter then they would certainly be viewed much more favorably.