“NVIDIA on Monday announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate whether certain Samsung devices, targeted in a recent NVIDIA suit against the South Korean giant and Qualcomm, should be banned from sales in the U.S. or not,” Chris Smith reports for BGR.
“NVIDIA alleges that Samsung’s own Exynos processors, and various Qualcomm CPUs including the Snapdragon S4, 400, 600, 800, 801 and 805, are in violation of certain GPU patents,” Smith reports. “Thus, NVIDIA is asking the ITC to ban several Samsung devices, including the recently launched Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy Note 4, but also the older Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab 2.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Slavish copiers.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Richie” for the heads up.]
I’m not surprised.
More good news:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Samsung-dealers-threaten-boycott-over-e-pricing/articleshow/39678073.cms
The big question is why Samsung is surprised. It doesn’t take a lot of forward thinking to figure out that screwing over others is going to come whack you back big time eventually. All of this is entirely deserved by Samsung, and all of it was avoidable by them having a modicum of forethought and conscience.
Considering how they are being hammered in the market place despite being gung-ho and putting sales before morality I can fully understand why they didn’t take the option of compromising their competitive position by being decent and honest, it’s not like the latter as yet has been the reason for their current market situation and one could argue it would be far worse if they had played nice. That’s why the authorities need to change their perspective by making them pay for what they are doing.
Great points!
Slavish Thieves…
“How can Sumsung expect us to meet targets when customers can buy its phones online at huge discounts? Samsung gives us a 5.5% margin, while the same phones are being sold online at 20-30% discount”
Ouch!!
It would have been a nice one-two combination – Apple uppercut and NVIDIA knockout – to Samsung if NVIDIA had pressed this legal suit sooner.
Let it be so! Please.
So does this mean all Galaxies will be taken away from their owners, and will be replaced with an iPhone?
Taken away from their owners and said owners forced to BUY an iPhone.
They get replaced with a refurbished Motorola Razr – the next nearest equivalent in terms of functionality and resale value.
Plenty of Zunes in the landfill…
And Kins.
I’m shocked, shocked! That’s so unlike Samscum to steal intellectual property!
One can only hope that this holds up and WHAM up yours Samescum!
Boom!
Investigation should be over by 2016 and end with a “strong recommendation”.
A strong recommendation that someone issue a stern warning.
Truth. Sad.
Oh, so it’s known that Koh will be presiding?
Well it’s nice that someone other than Apple can join the justice bandwagon to further illustrate the dishonesty-as-business-as-usual nature of Scamstung.
Line’em up! Slap that puppy.
They can’t even copy nVidis well, because their GPU sucks.
This can’t happen fast enough
And it likely won’t. 🙁
Copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, need we say more. First they copy Sony, then Apple, now Nvidia. Boycott the crap!!
STOP buying more damn dung from Samsung.
The more you “vote with your wallets,” the more damage you’ll do to them — far more than any court case could do.
The sad thing is, when they really got banned, the product life cycle is likely already ended for a long time, thus making the ban pointless. A better way to do it is to evaluation how much profit Samsung made during the entire product life cycle and fine them according to that number. This way, the ‘prolong the legal process until we stop selling the product’ strategy stops working for Samsung.
The problem is we know how many phones were shipped but we haven’t got a clue how many were bought, how many were given away and how many were land filled.
Fine them for every phone they claimed that shipped 🙂
F_c_ them and the horse they rode in on ….
Well not necessarily the horse ….. Save the horse they don’t deserve such a beautiful animal!