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They have strong case that a later version like stock ICS does not infringe on any of these patents, since the implementations have been altered for these patents (and other possible things that Apple could claim violation, such as slide to unlock). The jury foreman actually said in an interview...

That might be the case. They have already worked around the 381 patent "content bounce on scrolls/pinch-zoom/rotate"; but have yet to work on the workarounds for the other two utility patents. So there will be more updates coming down the pipe in the next few months. These might change the...

It doesn't seem that you are capable of following a logical argument. I was not the one that pointed to the 3GS and said that was the device that Samsung modeled theirs after. It was Apple legal that did that, you should take that question verbatum from above and email it to their legal...

No, you don't; You are still replying as if I was talking about the real-world scenarios. The scenario that Apple LAWYERS constructed during their argumentation specifically stated that it took only a few months to copy, in their own timeline.

Again, read my actual original comment. I'm not arguing that it is actually the case that they actually copied, or that Samsung case was exactly the same. But I'm simply applying their own logic, and the way they constructed their own timeline, in their own closing argument, to point out the...

Perhaps u should read my earlier response. Im not saying that it is the case that they copied. I think it's rather unlikely. But in their own closing argument, they constructed a timeline, and pointed to the 3gs picture and said that samsung copied that. And the ealiest phones that they...

Not at all, since in the comparison pictures that Apple legal team showed during the trial itself, the model of the iphone used was actually 3GS

No they are not shown off "days apart", and read my other comment

It was shown off in the fall of 2006, well before the announcement of the original iphone. Im not saying that we can determine any act of copying (I actually think its unlikely), but im just going by the Apple legal team's own line of reasoning in the closing argument in terms of a established...

Samsung are as much thieves in copying Apple, as Apple is a bunch of thieves in copying the LG Prada.

That is very true; The term "throughput" by itself means very little in terms of actual work (in the mathematical sense) gets done by a pipeline. Most importantly, you will need to specify the fractions of the major instruction formats/types in the machine code. Something like 35% ALU, 15%...

That will be highly dependent on the fraction of mem references within the instruction stream; so you will need to analyze specific compiled applications as well as know more specific details about the microarchitecture than what is available in the public domain right now.

All the system level code would run on the ARM cores, x86 would only be necessary for specific applications that are compiled in x86 binary. I don't think power consumption would be an issue, but yield and cost might be. So MCM or off package co-proc design would be another possibility, which...

A couple of decades from now, 2011 maybe remembered as one of the titanic shifts in the chip industry. Not only with the success of iPad, the meteoric rise of Android in mobile, the rise of a number of ARM manufacturers (which include nVidia), and MS porting their main client OS to ARM, but now...

I really loved that quote: