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Rambus Wins Decision in Trade Fight Against Nvidia Over Chips

2010-01-22 19:43:59.935 GMT
By Susan Decker and William McQuillen
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Rambus Inc., a designer of high- speed memory chips, won a key decision today in its effort to collect patent royalties from Nvidia Corp. over computer- graphics chips.

A judge with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said today that Nvidia is violating three patents owned by Rambus. Judge Theodore Essex’s decision, which is subject to review by the full commission, may result in a ban on imports of Nvidia chips and products that use them, including some computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co.

The revenue machine begins to really gear up now. Not too late to buy a bit of RMBS before the market understand the implications...