Texas Company Sues Nvidia and Others for Memory Patent Infringement
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In May 2026, a Texas technology company filed lawsuits in the federal courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the Delaware court, and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), accusing Nvidia, SK Hynix, Kioxia, Corsair, and Western Digital of infringing its memory technology patents. The cases focus on HBM and chiplet interconnect-related technologies, and the defendants cover GPU manufacturers, memory chip manufacturers, and storage product manufacturers. No rulings have been issued yet.
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A Texas-based technology company filed patent infringement actions in May 2026 in Texas district courts, Delaware, and the ITC against Nvidia, SK Hynix, Kioxia, Corsair Gaming, and Western Digital over memory technologies, per Law360. The article argues that concentrated value in AI chips, shared engineering bottlenecks in HBM, chiplet interconnects, co-packaged optics, and cooling, and a maturing patent landscape are converging to make AI hardware the next major patent litigation front. It notes that the window before large operating companies build defensive moats through cross-licensing and inter partes review appears open now in HBM and CPO and is opening in chiplet interconnects.
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