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Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the making-the-lawyers-rich dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Bloomberg reports that Samsung has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission asking them to block the import of Nvidia's graphics chips . This is part of Samsung's retaliation for a similar claim filed by Nvidia against Samsung and Qualcomm back in September. Both companies are wielding patents pertaining to the improved operation of graphics chips in cell phones and other mobile devices.

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  1. I mean this respectfully by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Paten trolls into hardware trolls - How about you folks go fuck yourselves.

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    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  2. Re:Deserved by Calibax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How, exactly, can Nvidia make games run poorly on other hardware? They don't write the games. Both AMD and Nvidia have extensive outreach programs to developers and make engineers available to game studios, and obviously those engineers will make suggestions on how to improve game performance on their hardware. But I doubt that game studio staff would be willing to cripple their games on either platform at the behest of Nvidia or AMD engineers.

    Would you like to provide citations that they bribe sites? And how would that hurt game performance? How can using certain benchmarks (as you suggest) make games run slower on other hardware? And even if they did, are you saying that sites would accept Nvidia's suggestions and ignore AMD suggestions?

    AMD fanboy much?