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Apple can build a GPU without infringing ImgTec patents, through a patent agreement with another GPU maker(including ARM, so they're pretty much covered).
by my123 10y ago
Apple can build a GPU without infringing ImgTec patents, through a patent agreement with another GPU maker(including ARM, so they're pretty much covered).
- bryanlarsen 10y agoPerhaps not. Existing GPU makers protect themselves through cross-licensing their patents: you can use mine if I can use yours. However, it sounds like ImgTec is considering going full-on troll, so they won't need access to the other patents any more and can just sit under their bridge extorting tolls.
- pcwalton 10y agoPatent trolls are non-practicing entities. Imagination Technologies is hardly a non-practicing entity.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoSure, today. But they're "concentrating on the licensing business".