AMD sued by Microunity over CPU patents

CHIP FIRM AMD is being sued for alleged patent infringement by a company which pocketed $300 million from Intel.

The case was filed on the 21st of November in a Texas district court.

Microunity alleges AMD breached the 5,742,840 it holds for a "general purpose, multiple precision parallel operation programmable media processor" iby using it in the Athlon, Sempr0n Athlon 64 X2, Turion, Next gen Opteron, quad core Opteron, Barcelona and Geode NX microprocessors.

Other patents AMD is alleged to have breached include the 5,794,060; the 5,794,071; the 5,809,321; the 6,006,318; the 6,584,482 B1; the 6,643,765 B1; the 6,725,356 B2; the 5,630,096; the 5,737,547; the 5,812,799 and the 5,822,603 filings.

Microunity wants a trial and an injunction, its lawyers fees, and enhanced damages. µ

See Also
The allegations PDF format
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