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Samsung files to block Nvidia chips

By Reuters
Johannesburg, 24 Nov 2014

South Korea's Samsung Electronics has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission seeking to block computer-graphics chips made by Nvidia from the US market, Bloomberg reported.

Samsung had accused Nvidia of infringing several of its chip-related patents and for making false claims about its products, counter-suing after Nvidia filed a suit against the company in September.

The Korean company's lawsuit came after Nvidia accused it and rival Qualcomm of infringing patents on its graphics-processing unit (GPU).

Samsung, which had filed the lawsuit in a US federal court on 4 November, is seeking damages for deliberate infringement of several technical patents, including a few that govern the way semiconductors buffer and use data.

The Bloomberg report said the ITC complaint also named computer-parts manufacturers Biostar Microtech International and Elitegroup Computer Systems.

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