Date: 17th Aug 2010
Rambus grants NVIDIA patent license for
certain memory controllers
Rambus and NVIDIA have signed a patent license agreement
related to certain memory controllers.
Under the agreement, Rambus has granted NVIDIA a patent
license for certain memory controllers at a 1 percent royalty
rate for SDR memory controllers and a 2 percent royalty
rate for other DRAM memory controllers, including DDR, DDR2,
DDR3, LPDDR, LPDDR2, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and portions of
GDDR5 memory controllers. NVIDIA has granted no licenses
to Rambus.
The signed patent license agreement went into effect on
August 12, 2010. The parties have not signed any releases
of liability, nor dismissed any outstanding litigation between
them.
The terms of the license are per the agreement that Rambus
offers as part of its commitment with the European Commission.
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