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The ongoing saga of ownership of Arm appears to be finally nearing its end, as Arm has announced this afternoon that the company has made its long-awaited filing for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange. Share prices and listing dates have not been set as of this time, but Arm has secured the ARM ticker symbol for the new offering. The SoftBank-owned chip IP designer, whose designs are at the core of virtually every smartphone and countless other embedded computers, has been hanging in a state of limbo since early 2022, when NVIDIA’s acquisition of the company was called off due to regulatory pressure. At the time, SoftBank announced that they would instead take Arm public – a much more challenging and...
Imagination to Double-Down on GPU Business, MIPS and Ensigma to Be Sold
Just over a month ago, Imagination Technologies dropped the bombshell announcement that their largest customer, Apple, would be phasing out their use of Imagination’s GPU IP in their SoC...
107 by Ryan Smith on 5/4/2017
Qualcomm Countersues Apple, Accuses Company of Launching Global Attack Against Qualcomm
For better or worse, this decade has marked an explosion of mobile-related lawsuits and anti-trust actions across the globe. Now, that trend is reaching what may be its apex...
25 by Ryan Smith on 4/11/2017
Apple To Develop Own GPU, Drop Imagination's GPUs From SoCs
In a bombshell of a press release issued this morning, Imagination has announced that Apple has informed their long-time GPU partner that they will be winding down their use...
144 by Ryan Smith on 4/3/2017
AMD Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against LG, MediaTek, Sigma Designs, and Vizio
Late last month, AMD filed a legal complaint against a number of companies accusing them of infringing its patents covering graphics processing technologies. The company requested the United States...
76 by Anton Shilov & Ryan Smith on 2/4/2017
United States FTC Charges Qualcomm with Antitrust Violations over Cellular Modem Patents & Technology
Qualcomm’s legal problems are growing. This afternoon the United States Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating Qualcomm for possible anti-trust issues since 2014, has moved on to the...
39 by Ryan Smith on 1/17/2017
South Korea Fines Qualcomm $865 Million for Anti-Trust Violations
Word comes out of South Korea today that the country’s antitrust regulatory authority, the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), has ruled against Qualcomm in an ongoing antitrust investigation and...
18 by Ryan Smith on 12/28/2016
Update: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Settlement Claims Website Now Open
Update 09/12: Bringing this back up, over the weekend the website to submit settlement claims went up. Owners of GTX 970s who purchased the card between its launch and...
105 by Ryan Smith on 9/12/2016
NVIDIA & Samsung Settle All Patent Infringement Disputes
Roughly a year and a half ago, NVIDIA opened up a patent infringement case against Samsung and Qualcomm, claiming that the various GPUs used by the two firms violated...
37 by Ryan Smith on 5/2/2016
US ITC Finds NVIDIA Guilty of Infringing Three Samsung Patents
An administrative law judge from the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday found that NVIDIA Corp. infringed several patents of Samsung Electronics. The judge ruled that NVIDIA’s graphics processing...
35 by Anton Shilov on 12/23/2015
Samsung/NVIDIA Case Update: US ITC Finds Samsung GPUs Non-Infringing
Following a six month lull in the ongoing legal battle between NVIDIA and Samsung over GPU updates, there is finally some new movement on the case. After previously receiving...
17 by Ryan Smith on 10/12/2015
European Union Opens Up Antitrust Investigation Into Qualcomm
Word comes out of Europe this morning that the European Union’s executive body, the European Commission, will be opening up an anti-trust investigation into Qualcomm. The Commission has investigated Qualcomm...
22 by Ryan Smith on 7/16/2015
Samsung/NVIDIA Case Update: NVIDIA Receives "Favorable Ruling" At Markman Hearing
In a quick update to the ongoing legal saga between NVIDIA, Samsung, and Qualcomm over the future of GPU patents and licensing, NVIDIA has published an update on the...
53 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2015
China Fines Qualcomm $975 Million for Anti-trust Violations
Word comes out of China this evening that an ongoing anti-trust investigation into Qualcomm has come to an end. Ruling against Qualcomm, China’s National Development and Reform Commission has...
59 by Ryan Smith on 2/9/2015
Samsung/NVIDIA Case Progresses: US ITC Begins NVIDIA Investigation
The legal battle between Samsung and NVIDIA over GPU licensing has turned another page this week, with the announcement from the United States International Trade Commission that it is...
30 by Ryan Smith on 12/24/2014
Samsung Files Counter-Suit & Patent Infringement Claims Against NVIDIA & Velocity Micro
Back in September NVIDIA filed patent infringement complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm. The crux of the issue being that NVIDIA believes that GPUs from Qualcomm, ARM, and Imagination all...
59 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2014
NVIDIA Files Patent Infringement Complaints Against Qualcomm & Samsung
In a surprising move this afternoon, NVIDIA has announced that they will be filing patent infringement complaints against both Qualcomm and Samsung. This complaint is centered around the alleged...
77 by Ryan Smith & Jarred Walton on 9/4/2014
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