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Apple caves, takes up license for ZiiLabs' patents

By Marcus Wong - on 30 Oct 2015, 2:28pm

Apple caves, takes up license for ZiiLabs' patents

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Well apparently the case has finally been resolved, with Apple agreeing to pay Ziilabs Inc. Ltd a license for the offending patents in question. The license payment will contribute approximately US$0.23 of earnings per share to the current quarter ending 31 December 2015, but the essential takeaway is that Creative is getting paid for every iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook Pro that uses any of the technologies below:

  1. US 5,831,637 - Video Stream Data Mixing for 3D Graphics Systems
  2. US 5,835,096 - Rendering System Using 3D Texture-Processing / Hardware for Accelerated 2D Rendering
  3. US 6,111,584 - Rendering System with Mini-Patch Retrieval from Local Texture Storage
  4. US 6,650,333 - Multi-Pool Texture Memory Management
  5. US 6,683,615 - Doubly-Virtualized Texture Memory
  6. US 6,977,649 - 3D Graphics Rendering with Selective Read Suspend
  7. US 7,050,061 - Autonomous Address Translation in Graphic Subsystem
  8. US 7,187,383 - Yield Enhancement of Complex Chips
  9. US 7,710,425 - Graphic Memory Management with Invisible Hardware-Managed Page Faulting
  10. US 8,144,156 - Sequencer with Async SIMD Array

Up next: Samsung? 

Source: BTInvest

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