Nvidia Signs Memory License Deal With Rambus
Rambus and Nvidia lsat week announced they have signed a patent license agreement related to certain memory controllers.
Under the agreement, Rambus has granted Nvidia a patent license for certain memory controllers at a 1 percent royalty rate for SDR memory controllers and a 2 percent royalty rate for other memory controllers, including DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, LPDDR2, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and portions of GDDR5 memory controllers. Nvidia has granted no licenses to Rambus.
The signed patent license agreement went into effect on August 12, 2010. The parties have not signed any releases of liability, nor dismissed any outstanding litigation between them. The terms of the license are per the agreement that Rambus offers as part of its commitment with the European Commission.
In late July, Rambus won the ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission saying that that Nvidia violated three of five patents held by the memory patent company.
law school admission test?
Correction:
"nVidia gets owned by Rambus' litigation team."
All they are is a technology patent law firm.
That's because Rambus doesn't need any licenses because they don't actually build anything useful or contribute to the tech industry in any beneficial way. They just leech off of other companies that actually serve a good purpose.
It would also be nice to know the patent dates... then we would know how much longer we have to put up with them. (patent date plus 17 years)
For that matter, the patent system is broken.
yea rambus can suck a pickle!
Because they have no need to make anything when they can just patent troll.
Wasn't their an article a few weeks back that said their income was something like 80%+ patent royalties?