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NVIDIA Sues Qualcomm and Samsung Seeking To Ban Import of Samsung Phones

Posted by samzenpus on from the sue-baby-sue dept.

Calibax writes NVIDIA has filed complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm at the ITC and in the U.S. District court in Delaware. The suit alleges that the companies are both infringing NVIDIA GPU patents covering technology including programmable shading, unified shaders and multithreaded parallel processing. NVIDIA is seeking damages and a ban on U.S. import of a number of devices with Snapdragon and Exynos processors until there is an agreement on licensing.

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  1. Switching to AMD by StormReaver · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thankfully, the Open Source AMD video driver has progressed enough to use it for normal computing. I've been using it on cards I already had laying around, and it performs very well for daily use. It performs much better than Nouveau (which isn't surprising, since AMD released full specifications, and nVidia requires complete clean-room reverse engineering), and integrates into a Linux desktop cleaner than the nVidia proprietary driver (nVidia destroys the boot display, for example).

    Now I have enough motivation to no longer use nVidia. Thank you, nVidia, for helping AMD gain some ground.

    1. Re:Switching to AMD by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Informative

      Rather surprisingly, I have also been quite happy with the developments of the open source Radeon driver under Linux. Works great and the performance is excellent.