NVIDIA General Counsel David Shannon revealed to BusinessWeek last Wednesday that the firm will continue selling GPUs in spite of an initial finding by the US International Trade Commission that certain NVIDIA video adapters infringe on Rambus patents.
“Rambus and Nvidia talked for eight years before they sued us,” said Shannon on January 26. “I don’t think it’s realistic to think that there’s going to be an agreement any time soon between the two companies.”
An administrative law judge at the US International Trade Commission on January 22 issued an internal ruling against NVIDIA and others in a case surrounding Rambus memory interface technology.
The judge found NVIDIA and several partner companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Gigabyte, in violation of Section 337 of the US Tariff Act of 1930. The judge has asserted that three of nine patents outlined in Rambus’ 2008 filing are valid, enforceable and have been infringed upon.
“Our customers will never have their businesses interrupted,” Shannon said. “Our position is there will be no exclusion order.”
Rambus, meanwhile, has couched smugness in diplomacy by announcing that the firm is, “very interested in having productive constructive settlement discussions with Nvidia whenever they’re ready.”
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