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Re:SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia by dogma1138 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @12:22PM (#14418271)
Well they have patented a modern back/front buffer setup which is what used in virtually every GPU today http://www.google.com/patents/US20020113786

They also hold the patents on simulating physics on a GPU and a billion other patents.

Same goes for NVIDIA.

AMD and NVIDIA violate each other's patents all day long and many more they don't sue each other since that would be a legal balckhole for both companies.

But they will we very keen on sueing any new player.

Intel licenses a patent portfolio from NVIDIA currently for legal protections, and Samsung and Qualcomm license their GPU IP from AMD.

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