Clearly targeted (Score: 1) by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-09-08 12:05 (#2S58) It's directed at these two companies simply because they have competing mobile GPUs: Snapdragon(Adreno), and Exynos. I'd never heard of Exynos, but I think the Snapdragon was gaining ground. The first Nexus 7 had Tegra, while the second had Snapdragon.From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon :Adreno, the company's proprietary GPU series, integrated into Snapdragon chips (and certain other Qualcomm chips) is Qualcomm's own design, using assets the company acquired from AMD.[5]Why are they not going up against AMD/ATI? Surely they have infringed on the GPU patent much more since they have been around longer if the allegations are true. Re: Clearly targeted (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 04:52 (#2S6A) The general litigation strategy is: You go after the small ones first. They have less resources to defend themselves, and then you've created a precedent which can be used against the big guys.Of course it could also be that ATI has some patents they could use to counter-sue.
Re: Clearly targeted (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 04:52 (#2S6A) The general litigation strategy is: You go after the small ones first. They have less resources to defend themselves, and then you've created a precedent which can be used against the big guys.Of course it could also be that ATI has some patents they could use to counter-sue.