Nvidia sues Intel
March 27, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Lawsuits, Top Stories
Nvidia countersues Intel for breach of contract related to a chip licensing agreement between the two companies. When Intel sued NVIDIA earlier this month alleging that the GPU maker had infringed upon its patents.
The suit seeks to terminate Intel’s license to Nvidia’s patents related to graphics processing and three-dimensional computing and comes in response to a related suit by Intel last month.
Nvidia believes that without a licensing agreement, Intel’s line of integrated graphics chips violate Nvidia’s patent portfolio, according to Nvidia spokesman Hector Marinez.
Jerry Sanders – American Businessman
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936) was a co-founder and a long-time CEO of the American semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents. He was once attacked and beaten by a street gang that left him so covered with blood that a priest was called in to administer the last rites, but Jerry recovered. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on an academic scholarship from the Pullman railroad car company. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1958.
Biswamohan Pani – Indian Engineer
Biswamohan Pani is an Indian-born engineer who has been charged with stealing trade secrets from chipmaker Intel. Pani began working for Intel’s competitor, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), during the last few weeks of his employment with Intel. During this time, the affadavitt alleges, Biswamohan downloaded top secret documents detailing future Intel projects onto his computer.
Biswamohan Pani – Sci-techs.com
