there's a conspiracy theory that AMD is behind all of this. <br><br><br><br>See, GloFo and AMD are basically owned by 1 company (?). So in recent times where people are taking RTX way more seriously, partly thanks to Control being an actual good tech demo for Nvidia's ray tracing, people are taking RTX more seriously than before. Now, AMD GPUs still, and probably won't have any ray tracing capability in any foreseeable future. AMD are never the type to shy away from boasting their achievements, and yet in their presentation, it's only stated that their next gen GPUs support "select lighting effects for real time gaming". If AMD can indeed make a hardware comparable to Nvidia's RT cores, and make their own framework for that to work (else they have to copy Nvidia's ray tracing code and that's a no no), they would've said it upfront rather than playing it down with "select lighting effects". <br><br>Now, what's all of that have to do with this mess? Simple, AMD wants to stifle RTX growth by attacking TSMC and making Nvidia's product can't enter US. But of course they just can't do that to Nvidia exclusively, hence all the indirect casualties like apple and friends. Also, in the lawsuit, AMD, one of the biggest TSMC customers are not included as TSMC's major customers, hence didn't get potentially blacklisted from US market if by any chance, GloFo won the case.<br><br>Now, will GloFo lawsuit succeed? Hard to say. One expert says that it have "over 50%" chance of actually succeeding, but we've seen a past case like this with android and iOS before. Steve Jobs, back then, was so frightened by potential smartphone competitor entering US market that he tries to kill android with the help by one of his friend, Larry Ellison, who worked at Oracle. They launched a lawsuit that states that android infringed some copyright that oracle have. Needlessly speaking, apple lost the case. Also, the lawsuit that GloFo prepares is a complete mess. It's as if they're just shooting randomly with patents from 10 years back, to entirely unrelated patents. I'm on the side that says this case will also go nowhere, just like the android case. But hey, I could be wrong if you're reading this in the future