Intel to pay $2.18 billion over patent infringements

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Intel has been found guilty by a U.S. federal district court in Texas in a patent dispute with VLSI. The verdict would make NXP Semiconductors, VLSI’s parent company, billions richer.
Intel won’t give up
As a result of the guilty verdict in the patent dispute with VLSI Technology, global market leader Intel must now pay $2.18 billion to the plaintiff. The background to the lawsuit is that Intel is alleged to have infringed U.S. registered patents 7,523,373 and 7,725,759 with methods for reducing current consumption in computer chips. In these, the voltage is adjusted depending on the desired performance. Another patent is about powering memory chips so that information is not lost and retained.
Intel’s lawyer considers the claims of the Californian company VLSI Technology to be „hair-raising“ and the company is not giving up. Intel intends to challenge the ruling issued by the court in Texas. In particular, Intel argues that the patents mentioned were not copied. Intel had...

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