The suit involves a weak die and faulty packaging material in Nvidia's GeForce 8600M graphics processors operating inside notebooks built by manufacturers including Dell, HP, and Apple.
In the settlement on August 12, Nvidia agreed to pay $13 million for the plaintiffs' legal fees. In addition, it will deposit $2 million into a reimbursement fund and replace any faulty GPUs. The $2 million fund is available to those who have experienced one or more of the "identified failures," according to the settlement as quoted in C-Net.
Nvidia has already spent $450 million since July 2008 to cover costs associated with the repair and replacement of laptops affected by issues with Nvidia's GPUs and their packaging.
Nvidia issued the following statement on Thursday: "We can confirm that Nvidia has settled litigation concerning a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP (media and communication processor) and GPU products used in notebook configurations." LINK
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