Nvidia Corporation has taken its first move in a brewing patent war against its rivals. 

The graphic processing chipmaker giant announced the filing of its first lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. and Qualcomm, Inc. It alleges that chips made by Qualcomm used in Samsung electronic devices infringed on its patents.

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Nvidia also noted patent issues with Samsung's use of ARM and Imaginations architectures.

Nvidia said its team negotiated with Samsung directly on the matter but was unable to make any progress. Samsung repeatedly claimed the patent issues were mostly their supplier's problem, said Nvidia Chief Administrative Officer Dave Shannon.

The complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Delaware District Court asked the ITC to stop the shipment of Samsung Galaxy devices with Qualcomm, ARMS and Imaginations technologies.

Nvidia also asked the district court to award it damages over the patent infringements.

Nvidia identified the Samsung devices involved in the lawsuit as the Galaxy S3, S4, S5, Galaxy Note, Note Pro, Note 3 Tab 2, Tab S, Tab Pro, Infuse 4G and Samsung Illusion, according to the technology weblog, TechCrunch.

It cited seven patent infringements

These include an infringement of Nvidia's entire concept of the GPU, which gives a single chip all the necessary functions for graphic processing and lighting-up screens; programmable shading; unified shading and GPU multithreaded parallel processing.

Nvidia said its intellectual property strategy aims to earn appropriate compensation by licensing graphic cores and patents.

It said Samsung and Qualcomm chose deployment without the proper return of investment and thus violated its strategy. Nvidia said it wants to reach an agreement with Samsung and its graphic suppliers by bringing its concerns to court.

In an emailed statement to Reuters, Samsung said it will take all the necessary measures against Nvidia's claims. Samsung did not, however, provide any details on what action it plans to take against the Nvidia lawsuit.

TagsNvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Galaxy