Rambus Convinces Nvidia to Sign License Agreement
Rambus and Nvidia have settled their patent dispute.
The two companies announced that Nvidia has signed a patent license agreement, which applies to "a broad range of integrated circuit (IC) products offered by Nvidia" for a time frame of five years. All claims referring to patent infringement in the past have been settled as well, Rambus said. Further details were kept confidential.
Rambus noted that the "license agreement […] settles our differences and allows [the company] to move forward with Nvidia, the leader in visual and parallel computing.” Nvidia did not provide an official statement.
Rambus filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nvidia in 2008, in which the company claimed that the graphics chip maker infringed on a total of 17 Rambus patents that relate to SDR, DDR and GDDR memory controllers. Nvidia defended itself by stating that Rambus' strategy to patent rather common techniques to manufacture memory is anti-competitive and should be considered theft.

Now that two of the fiercest Rambus antagonists and leaders of the alliance have caved (Nvidia & Broadcom), ST Micro, MediaTek, LSI and a myriad (literally dozens) of other companies that infringe Rambus DRAM controller IP will be running to Sunnyvale, asking for a Rambus license... Hynix and even Micron won't be far behind (global settlement by April)
The bad thing is that nV just fueled their idiocy for 5 more years.
You mad??
To pay them back, reform of patent system is needed with punishment for wasting man hours on frivolous lawsuits. Or just go with the simple suggestion that many times appears on the comments of Tom's Hardware, elimination of greedy lawyers and greedy patent trolls.
Didn't they tech them the basics. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!
Rambus cannot die fast enough. Thank intel for being part owner of that POS company.
I would not quite go so far as to say that Rambus was the ONLY bad call by Intel that gave AMD the lead for so long, but it deffinately was the beginning of several bad calls. Rambus consistantly over promises, under performs, overheats, and costs too much when the product becomes popular. They need to die or change their business practices if they ever want to really succeed.
reminds me apple. they put an apple on a random today's or past product, patent it, and call it revolutionary, then sue everyone. instant profit. 0% invention 0%production 100% marketing 99999999% profit + 9999999999% from patent trolling.