Nvidia Sues Qualcomm and Samsung

[imthewalrus]

 

 

The complaint filed with the ITC seeks an injunction against Samsung with a goal of blocking at least 12 of Samsung's devices including the latest Galaxy S5, Note 4 and Note Edge, until the South Korean giant agrees on paying licensing fees. The devices which it has asked the ITC to block are those which contain Qualcomm's Adreno, ARM's Mali or Imagination's PowerVR graphic chips."Instead of developing its own graphics processing technology, Samsung purchases and uses Qualcomm’s infringing processors and GPUs, as well as other processors and GPUs that infringe the claims of the asserted patents," Nvidia said in its Delaware filing.Nvidia's foundational invention, the GPU, which puts onto a single chip all the functions necessary to process graphics and light up screens

 

Nvidia claims that at least seven of its patents have been infringed, including the following:

 

• Nvidia's foundational invention, the GPU, which puts onto a single chip all the functions necessary to process graphics and light up screens
• It's invention of programmable shading, which allows non-experts to program sophisticated graphics
• The invention of unified shaders, which allow every processing unit in the GPU to be used for different purposes
• The invention of multithreaded parallel processing in GPUs, which enables processing to occur concurrently on separate threads while accessing the same memory and other resources.

 

Nvidia is desperately trying to make up for its  losses with the Titan z? If they can sue people for putting all the functions that are necessary to light up a screen imagine who they will sue next.

 

Source: http://hexus.net/business/news/legal/74317-nvidia-sues-qualcomm-samsung-graphics-patents/

 

[Jobbe03]

Meh, that's what you get for breaking patents. 

[Tocsin_786]

third repost... unless i counted wrong 

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/209736-nvidia-sues-samsung-and-qualcomm/

[Rorgash]

companies HAVE to call these out or they will lose the patents(from what i know) which would be a disaster.

[TheKDub]

Much repost! (Don't feel like finding the link right now, I might later)

[Deletive]

Nvidia is desperately trying to make up for its  losses with the Titan z? If they can sue people for putting all the functions that are necessary to light up a screen imagine who they will sue next.

Omg can people shut up about the titan? They sold enough. It's for content creation. The whole launch event had almost nothing to do with gaming.

Btw this is a repost.

[imthewalrus]

Omg can people shut up about the titan? They sold enough. It's for content creation. The whole launch event had almost nothing to do with gaming.

Btw this is a repost.

 

Before they delete it, the Tesla K1 is for content creation, the titan was desperately targeted for gamers, if not look at their website. 

[Deletive]

Before they delete it, the Tesla K1 is for content creation, the titan was desperately targeted for gamers, if not look at their website. 

Dispite all of that. It's still more content creation.

[Enderman]

Nvidia is desperately trying to make up for its  losses with the Titan z?

You obviously have no idea who the titan z was for, and the fact that they did not 'loose' anything with the titan z.

[imthewalrus]

You obviously have no idea who the titan z was for, and the fact that they did not 'loose' anything with the titan z.

 

Dispite all of that. It's still more content creation.

 

 

If you were a content creator I am pretty sure you wouldn't even consider a gaming graphics card over a workstation card like the quadro. I am not hating on Nvidia, I am simply saying that it was a pretty stupid idea to release a gaming graphics card at that price range. If you think they haven't lost any money, then you are probably right, I was just exaggerating. 

 

If you still believe that Nvidia markets this card for content creation, please look at the image below. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

If you were a content creator I am pretty sure you wouldn't even consider a gaming graphics card over a workstation card like the quadro. I am not hating on Nvidia, I am simply saying that it was a pretty stupid idea to release a gaming graphics card at that price range. If you think they haven't lost any money, then you are probably right, I was just exaggerating. 

 

If you still believe that Nvidia markets this card for content creation, please look at the image below. 

it is a GPU orientated to content creation, the machine developers works on their games aren't filled with quadros they are filling with the same kind of GPU the end user would have, because of several reasons, i'm sure they have quadros and firepros to but stashed in a server when they can offload stuff that does need that kind of power like rendering animations and CGI trailers

[Deletive]

If you were a content creator I am pretty sure you wouldn't even consider a gaming graphics card over a workstation card like the quadro. I am not hating on Nvidia, I am simply saying that it was a pretty stupid idea to release a gaming graphics card at that price range. If you think they haven't lost any money, then you are probably right, I was just exaggerating. 

 

If you still believe that Nvidia markets this card for content creation, please look at the image below. 

I'm a content creator,maxwell is still a better architecture for GpGPU floating point performance than 680 or a k4000 so until they have quadro cards for maxwell; No where in game will a gaming card ever need Double precision on a titan Z unless it's creation. Many people with deep pockets will be looking at those pages. while Developers and content creations would not look on those pages for what they're looking for, they go to different to pages.

[sof006]

• Nvidia's foundational invention, the GPU, which puts onto a single chip all the functions necessary to process graphics and light up screens

 

 

Since when? Nvidia didn't "invent" nothing. There was plenty GPU's prior to Nvidia's. Also the last bit is incorrect. The GPU doesn't light up the screen. LCD's or AMOLED are lit up by a light source the last time I checked.

 

 

Nvidia is pulling stuff out their ass quite clearly.

[imthewalrus]

it is a GPU orientated to content creation, the machine developers works on their games aren't filled with quadros they are filling with the same kind of GPU the end user would have, because of several reasons, i'm sure they have quadros and firepros to but stashed in a server when they can offload stuff that does need that kind of power like rendering animations and CGI trailers

 

I dont know many end users that spend the down payment for a car on a graphics card. If you are a game developer it would be within reason to test your games with the most common graphics cards such as the 780 ti or r9 290x.