NV同RAMBUS和解，簽署五年授權協議
 

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/ne...cense_agreement

Nvidia, Rambus Settle Patent Dispute, Ink Five Year License Agreement
Posted 02/08/2012 at 11:26am | by Paul Lilly

Rambus, a memory technology licensing company, announced today it has signed a patent license agreement with GPU maker Nvidia that will be valid for the next years. As part of the five-year deal, the two sides agreed to settle all outstanding claims against each other, ending what had become a bitter and stretched out legal dispute over various patent innovations.

"This is an important license agreement as it settles our differences and allows us to move forward with Nvidia, the leader in visual and parallel computing," said Harold Hughes, president and chief executive officer at Rambus. "Looking forward, we have the opportunity to focus on developing innovative solutions in concert with our licensees to help bring compelling, innovative products to market."

Other terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Nvidia spokesman Hector Marinez told The Wall Street Journal his company was "pleased to settle the matter on terms that are fair and logical" to Nvidia.

Rambus and Nvidia have been battling each other for over three years. Count this as purely speculation, but Nvidia likely got the better end of the deal on this one. The settlement comes just a few months after Rambus lost a $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron and Hynix, which promptly sent the company's share price free-falling by more than 60 percent. With the legal tides seemingly turning against it, it's possible Rambus figured that any settlement was better than no settlement.

接著會不會用XDR2... :D

680先生出來比較實在啦... :unbelief:

不一定跟Rxxbxs有關就是要用XDR
Rxxbxs本身握有一堆memory controller的專利
這隻超級專利蟑螂敢四處亂告人,當然它有一定的本錢
你只要設計出來的memory controller/memory chip本身有一些加速機製在,它懷疑你抄它專利
你就會被它盯上

如果真的採用XDR2
大概也只有NVIDIA公版卡看的到
不論XDR2好不好
XDR2顆粒的庫存備料、供貨穩定等等都是問題
如果NVIDIA沒特別簽約的話
我看板卡廠大概只會出GDDR5的顯卡
假設XDR2真的比GDDR5好上不少
板卡廠大概會推出限量版的高階顯卡配XDR2

XDR2...也許繼Ti之後，Ultra也要重出江湖了... :laugh:

那只是五年內產品跟研發進度線不會因為官司打斷的保護費

專利本來就是拿來告人的 不然專利還有和用途？

幫忙補充完美... :laugh:
專利本來就是"養來+養肥"拿去告人的 不然專利還有和用途？ :shy: