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We have one good news for Nvidia, one for AMD and another one that's just informing.

NVIDIA & Samsung Settle All Patent Infringement Disputes

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10290/nvidia-samsung-settle-all-patent-infringement-disputes

Roughly a year and a half ago, NVIDIA opened up a patent infringement case against Samsung and Qualcomm, claiming that the various GPUs used by the two firms violated various NVIDIA patents. In response, Samsung opened up their own counter-suit, claiming that NVIIDA and its partners were violating Samsung patents. Since then, things have not progressed well for NVIDIA, with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that Samsung’s GPUs don’t infringe on NVIDIA’s patents, while also ruling that NVIDIA’s GPUs did infringe on Samsung’s patents.

Now with the final ruling on Samsung’s counter-suit originally scheduled for today, NVIDIA has announced that they have buried the hatchet with Samsung, ending all litigation between the companies. In their announcement, NVIDIA notes that both companies have ended their suits with the US courts, US ITC, and the US Patent office, effective immediately. In turn, both companies have agreed to cross-license “a small number of patents by each company to the other,” while noting that this is not a broad cross-licensing agreement. All other terms of the deal – such as any potential payments – are not being disclosed.

 

AMD is Finally Fabless, Dead Certain to Secure a Profit in Q2 2016

http://vrworld.com/2016/05/02/amd-dead-certain-secure-profit-q2-2016/

When Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced its first quarter 2016 results, the company executives stated that they’re on track towards return to profitability in the second quarter of this year. In Q1 2016, the company suffered a $109 million loss on $832 million revenue, during a silent quarter stifled with the lack of orders (post-holiday blues in the West meets Lunar New Year two-week slowdown).

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The “New AMD” now has all but guaranteed profit i.e. net income in the current, second quarter 2016. As we reported, AMD 3.0 strategy is being executed by Dr. Lisa Su and Raja Koduri. AMD is going to continue as a business development organization being led by Lisa, while Raja will push the creation of new products and technologies with the Radeon Technologies Group. Even though the name is RTG, Radeon Technologies Group also takes care of the microprocessor lineup. While AMD / RTG haven’t disclosed the workforce split, AMD / RTG is evolving into a lean operation with clearly split roles, a move which can only benefit the company.

 

Maybe that's why AMD shares gained so much value.

 

AMDGaming has talks about Battlefield 5 and links its page, with a countdown that ends three hours after the Nvidia event.

On Friday, May 6th at 4PM ET all will be revealed...#Battlefield https://t.co/kcCFRTVbEg pic.twitter.com/4QFTTlS9KI

— AMD Gaming (@AMDGaming) May 2, 2016

I don't think AMD will show anything new during the Battlefield reveal, but it should put an end to some rumors that linked both Nvidia and Battlefield together.