High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rambus Inc. v. NVIDIA Corporation was a patent infringement case heard in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In 2008, Rambus Inc. initially filed a complaint accusing NVIDIA Corporation of infringing seventeen Rambus patents. Rambus Inc. licenses patents it owns to companies, these patents are either acquired and purchased from third parties, or are acquired through the filing of new technologies developed at Rambus. Since its founding in 1990, Rambus has acquired patents on many of the components that make up memory controllers and modern computer processor chips. NVIDIA manufactures and distributes Graphics Processing Units (GPU). GPUs debuted in 1999 and have since greatly enhanced computer graphics and parallel processing capabilities.