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Samsung is taking Nvidia to court in an alleged false advertising case. Nvidia produced some marketing material showing benchmark results of the Tegra K1 against the Exynos chip found aboard the Galaxy Note 4, showing that the Exynos chip is slower –– of course Samsung has taken exception to the claims.
Nvidia’s comparison pitched the company’s new Shield Tablet against the new Note 4 phablet, with Nvidia claiming its device used the “world’s fastest mobile processor”. But as well as allegations of false advertising, Samsung also claims Nvidia has infringed upon six Samsung patents, with an Nvidia client, Velocity Micro, allegedly infringing a further two.
Nvidia has publicly responded to the legal action in an online posting, where it clarified that it ran its tests on store-bought, fresh out the box devices with both the Note 4 and the Shield Tablet – this is how it generated the results used in the marketing material.
The move follows Nvidia’s own legal action against Samsung and Qualcomm, where it alleged the pair had infringed on seven of its GPU patents a matter of months ago.
Nvidia’s claim goes as far as requesting the International Trade Commission should block Samsung Galaxy devices shipping with Qualcomm Adreno GPUs onboard, as well as ARM’s Mali and Imagination’s PowerVR chips. However, Samsung is familiar with legal battles having long been embroiled in court actions with Apple and others, meanwhile, Nvidia made a point that this is the first time it has ever filed a patent lawsuit.
17:31, 12 Nov 2014
by pbriden via Featured Articles
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