Nvidia and Samsung settle patent lawsuit over graphics chips

Nvidia and Samsung said today that they have agreed to settle all pending intellectual property litigation between the two companies.

Nvidia, the world’s biggest standalone maker of graphics chips, said the agreement will lead to the immediate dismissal of all pending IP litigation in U.S. district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent Office between the companies.

The settlement includes the licensing of a small number of patents by each company to the other, but it contains no broad cross-licensing of patents or other compensation. Further details of the agreement are not being disclosed. It’s not clear whether money is changing hands.

Nvidia sued Samsung in the fall of 2014 for infringing patents related to graphics chips. Samsung countersued, saying that Nvidia infringed six of its own patents and falsely advertised that one of Nvidia’s processors was the world’s fastest mobile processor.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.