The US ITC (United States International Trade Agency) will start investigating Nvidia after Samsung filed complaints last month
stating that the US-based GPU giant has infringed upon some of its
patents covering graphics chip technology. Samsung’s complaint was a
response to an earlier decision by the same court after a complaint by Nvidia against Samsung.
These ITC complaints came after both the companies sued each other in
federal district courts in Delaware and Virginia. David Shannon, chief
administrative officer at Nvidia said, “This is typical legal ping pong.”
Legal battles of these kinds are often fought and decided district
courts, but filing a second complaint with ITC has turned out to be a
favorite choice amongst firms these days. ITC can move faster than other
civil courts courts and if it finds the other party guilty, it bans the
import of infringing products into the US. “Nvidia remains focused
on ensuring that we receive fair compensation from Samsung for using our
technology in Galaxy phones and tablets,” Shannon said.
Earlier this year, Nvidia had filed lawsuits against Samsung and Qualcomm
following an alleged infringement of seven patents related graphics
chips such as unified shading, programmable shading, multithreaded
processing on GPU, and the entire idea behind a standalone GPU, among
others. Samsung is also working on its own of mobile GPU design, which will be used in its homegrown Exynos SoC for mobile devices.
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