Semiconductors Intergraph claims victory in patent suit against Intel

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--In a major and stunning decision, a U.S. district court in Texas ruled on Thursday that Intel Corp.'s 64-bit processor lines infringe upon Intergraph Corp.'s RISC technology for defining key aspects of parallel instruction computing (PIC). This represents Intergraph's second legal victory over Intel in recent months, it was noted.

 
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Intel already owes $300M to Intergraph even before today (the $300M was from a previous ruling earlier this year). Today's ruling adds even more, another $150M, which brings the total to $450M, or nearly half a billion bucks once litigation fees are taken into account (after all this has been going on for close to six years). Not too pretty.

And in addition, according to The EE Times, upon payment of $150 million, intel then has three options: pay an additional $100 million to Intergraph and receive a license to the PIC patents; appeal the district court decision and, if they lose the appeal, pay Intergraph an additional $100 million; or try to design around the infringement.
 
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Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Intel already owes $300M to Intergraph even before today (the $300M was from a previous ruling earlier this year). Today's ruling adds even more, another $150M, which brings the total to $450M, or nearly half a billion bucks once litigation fees are taken into account (after all this has been going on for close to six years). Not too pretty.

And in addition, according to The EE Times, upon payment of $150 million, intel then has three options: pay an additional $100 million to Intergraph and receive a license to the PIC patents; appeal the district court decision and, if they lose the appeal, pay Intergraph an additional $100 million; or try to design around the infringement.
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holy crap, i have never seen you before.... uh welcome "anandtech motherboard editor" :p
 
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Originally posted by: gopunk
Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Intel already owes $300M to Intergraph even before today (the $300M was from a previous ruling earlier this year). Today's ruling adds even more, another $150M, which brings the total to $450M, or nearly half a billion bucks once litigation fees are taken into account (after all this has been going on for close to six years). Not too pretty.

And in addition, according to The EE Times, upon payment of $150 million, intel then has three options: pay an additional $100 million to Intergraph and receive a license to the PIC patents; appeal the district court decision and, if they lose the appeal, pay Intergraph an additional $100 million; or try to design around the infringement.
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holy crap, i have never seen you before.... uh welcome "anandtech motherboard editor" :p
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Haha, thanks.
 
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Adul i know someone who worked for Intergraph! Glad that Intergraph won because they deserved to!
 
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Ouch...sux to be Intel. Think they'll appeal or design around it and will it affect any of the upcoming releases for them?
 
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Appeals will come. Anyone wanna guess how long it takes Intergraph to collect half a billion :D

Good for Intergraph/SGI though!
 
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