Troll Alert
Don't you just love it when standards bodies are snookered into adopting standards where there are submarine patents awaiting?
Rambus claims that Nvidia (and everyone under the sun probably) is violating 17 Rambus patents by interfacing to SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR and GDDR3 memory before paying it to license "the technology".
Hopefully the claims get tossed out of court. Rambus in the past has run into trouble for trying to collect on patents it owns but did not disclose ownership of when sitting on memory standards committee's.
Are you kidding?
Your source - the Inquirer - suspects that Nvidia the Rambus Inc. complaint will be costing more than the $150 - $200 million charge that Nvidia is taking for its defective graphic chip.
It is time for Patent Stealing Trolls (allegedly) like Nvidia to pay.