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Imagination Technologies can’t resolve Apple IP spat, opens formal dispute
- DonbunEf7 10y agoGood riddance. Their obnoxious licensing has made it all but impossible for Free Software interoperability with their GPUs to be written. I will not miss them, nor their chips, nor their patents.
- mrkstu 10y agoSeems to be a bit of a cart before the horse issue, which is why they aren't going to court I suppose- no actionable issue. Apple's big issue though is when they do actually ship they are likely to be highly exposed to patent suits from the incumbent video/3d IP holders. If Imagination/AMD/NVidia see that Apple is going to do what it seems to be doing- going vertical wherever they can to capture more margin- they'll feel free to sue without fear of loss of losing Apple as a customer. Mac's are not a major revenue source for AMD and a non-existent one for Nvidia and Imagination. Apple will have to come to some kind of agreement to keep shipping unless they have lots of patents they can enforce against the counter-parties.