AMD and ATI Applied sciences ULC have filed a grievance with the US Worldwide Commerce Fee (USITC) that Realtek Semiconductor and TCL Industries Holdings have violated 5 patents, triggering a USITC investigation of the claims.
The USITC introduced that it might examine sure graphics techniques, elements thereof, and digital televisions with elements from Taiwan-based Realtek and the China/Hong Kong-based TCL Industries Holdings (and its subsidiaries). The allegedly patent-infringing merchandise are all imported into the US on the market, bringing them beneath the remit of the USITC.
AMD and ATI filed the grievance on Might 5, 2022, in search of an exclusion order and stop and desist orders for the sale of the merchandise. The USITC introduced the investigation on July 1. AMD and ATI Applied sciences ULC of Canada, which AMD bought again in 2006, claims Mediatek and TCL Industries violated 5 patents masking numerous graphics applied sciences.
The ATI patents embody texture decompression strategies, a graphics processing structure with a unified shader, and a multi-threaded graphics processing system (patents 7,742,053 claims 1-9, 8,760,454 claims 2-11, and 11,184,628 claims 7-12). The AMD patents cowl a way and system for synchronizing thread wavefront information and occasions, and a patent masking a processing unit that allows asynchronous job dispatch (patents 8,468,547 claims 16-21, and 8,854,381 claims 15-20).
The investigation brings again recollections of one other USITC investigation triggered by AMD and ATI again in 2017. That investigation centered on patent infringements by LG, Vizio, Mediatek, and Sigma Designs, most of whom settled with AMD. Nonetheless, AMD ultimately sued Mediatek for violating a number of of its patents.
AMD and ATI’s grievance claims that Realtek and TCL Holdings violated part 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Step one of the ‘Part 337 Investigation’ is for the Chief Administrative Regulation Choose of the USITC to designate a presiding Administrative Regulation Choose to supervise an evidentiary listening to to find out if there was a violation of Part 337. The USITC will give a goal date for the completion of the investigation inside 45 days.
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