Back in September, Xockets, the inventor of advanced data processing units (DPUs), filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, against Nvidia, Microsoft, and RPX. The company’s filing contends that the defendants have violated federal antitrust laws for illegal monopoly practices and willful patent infringement. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Nvidia has spearheaded an illegal cartel, facilitated by RPX, “to avoid paying the fair market price for Xockets' patented DPU technology—fundamental intellectual property that Nvidia uses to transform its GPUs into the drivers of the AI revolution and dominate the market for GPU-enabled AI computer systems.”
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