Nvidia picks up patent infringement club, beats Samsung with it

Nvidia picks up patent infringement club, beats Samsung with it   In more than two decades, graphics chipmaker Nvidia has managed to avoid lobbing patent lawsuits at rivals - a practice that apparently ends this week as the company breaks out the big guns against Samsung and Qualcomm.Nvidia today announced the filing of seven patent infringement complaints with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) [PDF link 1, 2] against mobile giants Samsung and Qualcomm over the former's refusal to license patented GPU technology. Read more >