https://www.techpowerup.com/230260/amd-files-patent-infringement-complaint-against-lg-vizio-others
 
The company (AMD) only requests that the Commission issue a limited exclusion order and permanent cease and desist orders directed at the infringing companies

 LG, MediaTek, VIZIO, and Sigma?
 
you ask me AMD needs allies not enemies
Even lost $$ in the last quarter
 
what Tech they have may be covered under prior art and and infringement would be minor consider most are not in a competing product
in fact 2 are Monitors/TV's - AMD does not make monitors or TV's
Mediatek makes CDR/DVD/blue ray players and sigma makes cameras
 
so what harm is done??
 
with regard to TV/monitors how does it harm?  - like the gpu can't feed it properly and they need AMD tech twice to handle it?....
or TV feed from a device needs some type of frame buffering or basic GPU to run TV menu maybe has similar tech
 
ask me it's weak
 
Weak play for AMD to go patent trolling - sounds desperate
 
in fact they don't make some of the chips inside their tech - and may be a 3rd party GPU manufacturer to blame
 
LG uses arm and ???Mali (GPU) inside the TV
 
it's go after the small dogs that don't have deep pockets to defend
not like AMD going after samsung.....imagine that - then samsung throw counterclaims (patents)out and Samsung owning AMD at the end of it

 The '506 patent relates to "a graphics processing architecture that enables a large amount of graphics data to be rendered to a frame buffer". The '133 patent relates to specialized "texture" processing circuitry that is employed by GPUs. Lastly, the '454 patent relates to a "unified shader" hardware architecture for GPUs. 
 
 
you ask me this is a 3rd party gpu issue
 
LG uses PowerVR GPU and 
 
LG and ARM have announced a partnership that will see the former’s HDTVs use the latter’s ARM11 MPCore multicore processor and ARM Mali GPUs. 
 
Vizio uses Arm v6

 
Im assuming the blue ray players need an arm core and GPU too (built in menus with browser and netflix,etc)
Same would go with camera menus and processing

http://wccftech.com/amd-files-gpu-lawsuit-lg-vizio-mediatek/ 

It's not usually about the money in these cases. When a company owns a patent for a technology if they fail to enforce a patent they can actually end up loosing the rights to that patent. In order to hold onto the right of the patent they are required by the law to take action when someone they believe is using their patent unlawfully. While sometimes this can result in a monetary gain for the company it can also help secure their rights for the patent for future use.
 

According to the complaint, these patents generally relate to architectures for graphics processing unit (GPU) circuitry. The '506 patent relates to "a graphics processing architecture that enables a large amount of graphics data to be rendered to a frame buffer". The '133 patent relates to specialized "texture" processing circuitry that is employed by GPUs. Lastly, the '454 patent relates to a "unified shader" hardware architecture for GPUs. The complaint specifically refers to various televisions and smartphones, specifically, towards the graphics processing systems within those televisions and smartphones - as infringing products.
 
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patent '506
framebuffers are common place to hold data(taught to all programmers before there were graphic cards) - any data - just because it hold graphic data doesn't make it patentable - so just because you made a cache to hold data like a software frame buffer in hardware that this is patentable( you  realize that software uses hardware to make a framebuffer - all you did is find a algorithm that can do it in circuit - and there are many algorithms that can do that - so many ways to implement a hardware framebuffer)..this is dead on sight
 
patent '133 - which can be implemented many ways including by any cpu - unless you can provide circuit designs papers(from them and AMD) to show how identical they are - this is a wash
 
 
patent '454
and unified shaders - heck why don't u sue Nvidia or every other GPU maker - this would probably come as prior art - considering how shaders came a long time ago before AMD
 
 
heck why don't we go back - who made the first graphic cards??
 http://www.techspot.com/article/650-history-of-the-gpu/
 
there is enough prior art out there