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1. Couple sues over their slow Vista PC

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... constantly freeze or crash when they tried to run Vista Home Premium. The Aspire 4520-5458 notebook, which the Wolphs purchased for $586 from Wal-Mart, included 1GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 610M integrated ...

2. Chipset battleground: Nvidia accuses Intel of breach of contract

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The chipset license dispute between Nvidia and Intel seems to get a bit more interesting as Nvidia now wants to terminate Intel’s license to Nvidia’s patents. Right now, it seems more like a flexing ...

3. Update: No charges against AMD in GPU pricing suspicions

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... closed. The probe is officially ended, according to AMD, effectively clearing up suspicions of antitrust violations that puzzled industry watchers in the first place. However, while AMD/ATI and Nvidia ...

4. Apple suggests Nvidia is dishonest about GPU failures

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     Apple took an unusually hard shot at Nvidia’s credibility yesterday: Apple said that it found that GeForce GPUs used in some Macbook Pro systems are failing, while Nvidia “assured” the company ...

5. New Nvidia GPUs use old solder bumps, cause of GPU failures

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     It appears that Nvidia has changed its mind on making a hard transition from high-lead to eutectic solder bumps in its GPUs as a strategy to reduce the failure rates in its GPUs. Industry sources claim ...

6. Nvidia hit with second suit over defective GPUs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     Law firm Kahn Gauthier Swick said it has filed a securities class action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming that Nvidia issued false statements about the failure rates of its chips, negatively impacting the ...

7. Nvidia asked to pay up for defective chips

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     Shalov Stone Bonner & Rocco said it has filed a securities fraud class action against Nvidia, selflessly representing all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of ...

8. Rambus is back in court, sues Nvidia

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

     More bad news for Nvidia. Following faulty chips that shaved a third off the company’s market capitalization, the company is now being sued by Rambus for the alleged infringement of 17 patents. ...

9. University sues Google for patent infringement

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   A professor at Northeastern University has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the site's entire search infrastructure infringes on a patent he owns. Boston (MA) - A professor at Northeastern ...

10. SGI goes after ATI with patent infringement suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... according to the lawsuit. SGI works with ATI's competitors, including Nvidia, which makes them understandably upset about the prospect of ATI copying off of their proprietary technology. "SGI has licensed ...

11. SiS vs. UMC - and the winner is: Intel?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... warehouses until maybe next March! You'd think this would delight ATI, Nvidia, VIA and others, but it doesn't. Instead it worries the hell out of them because the SiS-based motherboard suppliers, with ...

12. Ex-Soviet nuke scientists make electronic legs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... chip firm NVidia is moving to buy 3dfx Interactive, the company that may soon win a major patent violation lawsuit against NVidia itself. The idea makes some sense, as whatever judgment might be levied ...

13. NVidia to buy 3dfx?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      According to a BusinessWeek writer, graphics chip firm NVidia is moving to buy 3dfx Interactive, the company that may soon win a major patent violation lawsuit against NVidia itself. The group ...

14. S3 pooh-poohs Nvidia lawsuit

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Predictably, S3 officials are denouncing Nvidia's latest lawsuit, saying it is a transparent attempt to gain a bargaining advantage against S3's own lawsuit against its rival in the graphics chip ...