HTC Purchase of S3 May Give Them a Bargaining Chip Against Apple

HTC recently bought S3 Graphics, a graphics company, and S3 Graphics recently won an infringement suit where Apple was found guilty. S3 also owns patents for systems and methods for compressing images� and image data formats.�

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