Nvidia to Pay Fees to Import GPUs after Rambus Ruling

The U.S. International Trade Commission found late on Monday that Nvidia and many of its customers had infringed patents held by Rambus. Nvidia indicated that it will post a bond to continue supplying its chips.
Specifically, the ban applies to "certain synchronous dynamic random access memory controllers and products containing the same," reportedly found within the GeForce, Quadro, nForce, Tesla and Tegra lines, as part of the original 2008 complaint, filed after Rambus filed suit earlier that year.
The ruling shouldn't affect consumers too much. The ITC determined that Nvidia or its customers could pay a bond of 2.65 percent to allow the products to be shipped. That would equate to about a $12 premium on the price of a GeForce GTX 480, Nvidia's top-of-the line desktop graphics card, which costs about $459.99. LINK