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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by tooltalk on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:08AM (#14021496)
nVidia made similar claims against Samsung (and Qualcomm) a couple of years ago. A lot of folks speculated that Samsung would lose not only because nVidia is a leader in GPU business, but also because Samsung is a foreign company.

Long story short, nVidia lost. (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/07/nvidia_and_samsung_...)

Samsung initially asked Qualcomm to deal with it since nVidia was really going after Qualcomm's Adreno GPU used in Samsung's smartphones in the US. Qualcomm instead decided to sit back and twiddle their thumbs as nVidia filed lawsuits against Samsung (and Qualcomm). Many predicted Samsung would end up like Apple vs Samsung considering Qualcomm's political clout and jury bias in the US, but the USITC quickly put an end to Qualcomm's misadventure. Samsung countersued and won, and Obama couldn't be bothered to reverse USITC's opinion, impending import ban, against Qualcomm.

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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by wapz on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:44AM (#14021628)
Yeah, if you think about it companies like Apple have very little reason to pull out from a licensing deal unless they have a very good reason to (aka non-infringing tech on the way). They're not going to pull out and come back and say "We're sorry. Can you give us the same rate you offered before?"
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