NVIDIA Signs Patent License with Rambus

[FiXT]

The lawsuit between the companies will continue despite licensing agreement. A ruling in favour of Rambus by the US International Trade Comission (ITC) last month, saw NVIDIA products - including almost every major graphics card - banned from sale and import into the United States, as such the company has been forced to do what it must to continue ... [ Read full article ]

[YoungMan]

Uh oh....

[Sushi Warrior]

Don't feed the trolls now Rambus has more money to sue everyone else. Although a 1% royalty on memory controllers can't work out to much.

[MpG]

So, considering that Fermi's memory controller is weak, does this mean that Nvidia will be getting a better controller from Rambus? Or is their current controller from Rambus, and as soon as they source a better one, they won't be giving Rambus anything anyway?

BTW, love your mouse-over caption for the picture, Fixt

[SugarJ]

The problem is that Rambus doesn't produce a memory controller. If you do some digging on them, 96% of their income is from licensing. They patent stuff, then sue others that seem to infringe on the patents. Occasionally, they strike it rich.

[Sushi Warrior]

Those patents are also partially stolen ideas from open-standard conferences :/

[_dangtx_]

every time i read about rambus makes me sick.

good to see a slap in the face to the goblin, but still.