Nvidia and Samsung settle patent lawsuit over graphics chips

Nvidia and Samsung said today that they have agreed to settle all pending intellectual property litigation between the two companies.

Nvidia, the world’s biggest standalone maker of graphics chips, said the agreement will lead to the immediate dismissal of all pending IP litigation in U.S. district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent Office between the companies.

The settlement includes the licensing of a small number of patents by each company to the other, but it contains no broad cross-licensing of patents or other compensation. Further details of the agreement are not being disclosed. It’s not clear whether money is changing hands.

Nvidia sued Samsung in the fall of 2014 for infringing patents related to graphics chips. Samsung countersued, saying that Nvidia infringed six of its own patents and falsely advertised that one of Nvidia’s processors was the world’s fastest mobile processor.