Rambus takes aim at NVIDIA over alleged patent infringement, again

November 7, 2008 – 5:44 pm

While there still doesn’t seem to have been any developments in the lawsuit Rambus filed against NVIDIA earlier this year, that doesn’t seem to be stopping the company from opening up another front against its would-be arch rival, and it’s now taken its case to the International Trade Commission. As before, Rambus is alleging that NVIDIA and its partner companies are infringing on a whole slew of its memory-related patents, and it’s asking for a ban on all imports and sales of NVIDIA products that include DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2, and GDDR3 memory controllers — or anything with an NVIDIA logo on it, basically. For its part, NVIDIA doesn’t seem to be commenting on the matter just yet, but Rambus said in a statement that it believes the action was “necessary given NVIDIA’s continued willful infringement of our patents.” Look for the ITC to make a decision on whether to start an investigation into the matter or not within the next 30 days, and you can keep tabs on any future Rambus litigation on the Litigation Update section of its website which, yes, actually exists.