Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology
licensing companies specializing in high-speed memory architectures,
today announced it has filed suit in the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California against NVIDIA Corporation for
patent infringement.
The lawsuit alleges that a number of NVIDIA products with memory
controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, and GDDR3 SDRAM infringe 17
Rambus patents. The accused products in the complaint include chipsets,
graphics processors, media communication processors, multimedia
applications processors and other products from at least six NVIDIA
product lines. Rambus is seeking injunctive relief barring the
infringement, contributory infringement, and inducement to infringe the
Rambus patents, as well as monetary damages.
“For more than six years, we have diligently
attempted to negotiate a licensing agreement with NVIDIA, but our good
faith efforts have been to no avail,” said Tom
Lavelle, senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus. “Graphics
and multimedia products require leading-edge memory performance, and as
NVIDIA advances its product portfolio, it infringes more and more of our
patents. We are left with no other recourse than litigation to protect
and seek fair compensation for the use of our patented inventions.
Nevertheless, we hope to continue discussions with NVIDIA to reach a
negotiated settlement.”
Further information will be made available at http://investor.rambus.com
in the Litigation Update section.
About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies
specializing in the invention and design of high-speed memory
architectures. Since its founding in 1990, the Company's patented
innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration
expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring
superior products to market. Rambus' technology and products solve
customers' most complex chip and system-level interface challenges
enabling unprecedented performance in computing, communications and
consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class
patent portfolio as well as its family of leadership and
industry-standard interface products. Headquartered in Los Altos,
California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, India,
Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available
at www.rambus.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements under the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to Rambus’
patent infringement lawsuit, negotiations with NVIDIA and other related
matters. There is no assurance that Rambus will be successful in this
lawsuit or in reaching a negotiated settlement with NVIDIA. Such
forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates
and projections, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by
Rambus’ management. Actual results may differ
materially. Rambus’ business generally is
subject to a number of risks which are described more fully in Rambus’
periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rambus undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to
reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
RMBSLN
Rambus Public Relations
Linda Ashmore, 650-947-5411
lashmore@rambus.com
