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Boffins sue Intel over Dual Core architecture
A CASE WAS FILED two days ago in a Wisconsin district court, alleging that chip giant Intel has wilfully taken a patent relating to parallel processing related to Intel's "Core" series.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) alleges that US patent 5,781,752 called the “Table Based Data Speculation Circuit for Parallel Processing Computer” forms a key part of Intel Core 2 microarchitecture, particularly so in relation to “Smart Memory Access”.
The plaintiffs claim that they have attempted on several occasions to discuss this matter with Intel, but have been ignored. And so they are seeking damages, and want a trial. Intel was not available for comment. µ
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First off this link shows how Intel was working on Parallel processing as far back as 1975. Here is a link http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Parallel.html. Looks like these guys filed their patent a year late. Here is an intel patent stating same thing. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5606676.html. If the technology existed in working products prior to patent filings then the patent becomes null and void.
hey, maxius, get a clue. What we are talking about here is licensing fees. Intel resists paying it. If it loses, it will have to pay, not go out of business or redesign its entire line of processors.
intel will fight hard, lose and have to go back to the drawing board. Makes me wonder if the imc part that is coming has infringed on this patent? Furthermore how many of intel's chips in the pipe infringe on it... Perhaps this was a willful disregard to the patent knowing it would give them a completive advantage and a hope they would not be called on it? or a stall tactic till they could catch up and implement their own imc chip. I think if this goes threw intel will have nothing to sell and that would literally Kill them. At least now i have a reason to love Wisconsin the black hole of the cheese heads
Intel steals research. Intel won't negotiate licensing it. Victim of theft sues Intel. How is that "lawyer crap?"
This kind of of lawyer crap is killing us.
So will they be knocking on AMD's door next?
if so why didn't they do it back in the day...
Even hyperthreading?