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Nvidia wins first round in move to block Samsung mobile devices from entering U.S.

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted today to investigate whether certain Samsung mobile devices should be blocked from entering the U.S. because they may violate Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GPU) patents.

Nvidia filed a complaint with the ITC last month as well as a lawsuit in the Delaware District Court. The graphics chip maker alleges that the South Korean Electronics giant, which uses a number of Qualcomm mobile processors as well as Samsung’s own Exynos mobile processors, violated Nvidia’s GPU patents.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.