Nvidia today confirmed to have filed a complaint with the US ITC and US District Court in Delaware against Samsung and Qualcomm. The Tegra chip maker alleges that both companies infringe Nvidia’s GPU patents related to programmable shading, unified shaders and multithreaded parallel processing.
The lawsuit seems targeted more towards Qualcomm since they supply application processors to customers like Samsung but Nvidia’s CEO says both companies chose “to use [infringing features] in their products without a license from us.”
According to Nvidia, Samsung devices like Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab 2 infringe their patents that use ARM’s Mali and Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR GPU cores.
Interestingly, Nvidia isn’t suing ARM or Imagination Technologies or even Apple that uses Imagination Technologies’ graphics in their iPhones.
Nevertheless, Samsung has vouched to fight back after a “thorough review of the complaint.”
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