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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Nvidia faces billion-dollar patent challenge over its new AI Blackwell chips

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (Credit: Annabelle Chih—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A Texas tech firm is seeking billions in damages and threatening to block Nvidia’s rollout of its Blackwell AI chips this year, alleging patent infringement.

Xockets claims that Nvidia’s AI acceleration technology wasn’t invented in-house but "stolen" by Mellanox, a competitor Nvidia acquired in 2020 for nearly $7 billion.

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