AMD v. Realtek and TCL for infringement of some patents

AMD v. Realtek and TCL for infringement of some patents

It is certainly not unusual for IT companies to develop very similar technologies and one has to go to court to see if information already registered by other companies has been used. Recently, AMD and ATI Technologies ULC (acquired by AMD in 2006) filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), accusing Realtek Semiconductor and TLC Industries Holdings of infringing five patents.

The complaint is was presented on May 5 with the request to stop the sale on American soil of various products of the companies involved, which include some graphics systems, digital televisions and related components. As for ATI, we talk about texture decompression techniques, a graphics processing architecture with a unified shader and a multi-threaded graphics processing system. AMD's patents, on the other hand, concern a method and a system for synchronizing data and events of the wavefront of threads and a patent relating to a processing unit that allows the asynchronous distribution of activities.

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