Read more.Meanwhile Samsung touts better than expected Q1 profits of $5.44bn.
Read more.Meanwhile Samsung touts better than expected Q1 profits of $5.44bn.
"Qualcomm's Adreno, ARM's Mali or Imagination's PowerVR"
Ouch, as we speculated a while ago when the papers were filed, this could be massive. How many of those are out in the wild or being used in new handsets still???
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I'd agree with that - articles seem to be along the lines of "And we test the new Galaxy headline phone... (and there's a less interesting version too)". If I was looking for a new Samsung phone (which I'm not - happy with my current LG) then I'd be looking straight at the Edge, the "conventional one" would have to be a good deal cheaper.Apparently Samsung became lazy and the result was the Galaxy S5. Its daring new Galaxy S6 Edge might become a better seller than the regular Galaxy S6, barring any production speed bumps.
That's actually a big mistake by nVidia, as that encompasses all other mobile soc's bar intel's.
Which should surely lead the judge to deam the technology essential and thus nVidia must abide by FRAND rules.
They are also going after the wrong party, Qualcomm is the party at fault but they're too well protected from nVidia.
Edit - They are going after mobile soc's with unified shaders, the first Qualcomm chip with one of those featured and AMD designed GPU, which surely was cross licensed from nVidia ?
Last edited by keithwalton; 07-04-2015 at 06:11 PM.
I can't see the parties involved settling on withdrawal of products, i suspect that's just the stick to beat them with until they agree to a 'reasonable' settlement much in the same way Microsoft negotiated to take a cut from every Android device sold instead of banning them.
They're going after both Qualcomm and Samsung. And if the tech was cross licensed from Nvidia by AMD, it doesn't give AMD the right to give it away, or sell, or even loan, for resale, that tech.
Interestingly, the courts in Delaware are a LOT tighter on protocol, re: patent law, than, say, the East Texas district - meaning they require a lot more proof before they'll even look at the case. This could be interesting. And expensive, on a 10 digit plus scale.
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