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S3 denied injunction on NVIDIA

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: S3 denied injunction on NVIDIA. NVIDIA Corporation announced that a U.S.

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: S3 denied injunction on NVIDIA. NVIDIA Corporation announced that a U.S.

District Court Judge has denied S3 Incorporated’s motion for a preliminary injunction to stop NVIDIA’s shipment of its award-winning RIVA 128 3D processor. The judge made the ruling without hearing oral argument. S3 Incorporated’s motion stemmed from a complaint filed in May of this year, alleging patent infringement involving a patent that S3 had acquired from Cirrus Logic. For PC players watching every demo, patch, driver and announcement right now, this is one more thing to keep on the board.