Friday, February 8th 2008
Intel Sued for Core 2 Duo Patent Infringement
A lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors, back in 1998. Gurindar Sohi, Computer Science department chair, presented some of his developments relating to instruction level parallelism to Intel and offered to license them, but got nowhere, yet the same tech is in the Core 2 Duo, according to the lawsuit. Intel says its been talking to the Badgers for over a year now, and that it has not evaluated the complaint, which it might want to do in short order, since the University of Wisconsin is asking for the court to halt shipments of the Core 2 Duo in addition to monetary damages and legal fees.
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45 Comments on Intel Sued for Core 2 Duo Patent Infringement
intel can afford to lose the lead in the market to amd and they will spend a load of cash to keep the technology they have been using
They will settle out of court and nothing will be heard of this again.
to bad amd wont capitilize on this and buy the pattent, that would be FUNNY AS HELL, amd ends up having intel by the gonads.......that would just be funny as hell........
i just hope the school dosnt wimp out and effectivly give away the pattent to intel, im SURE intel knew what they where doing and just hoped to get away with it........time for it to bite them in the ass.
like the stacker situation bit ms in the ass, then ms just bought the company they had ruined to get out of the situation........
its why the RIAA/MPAA excist, but in this case i stick behind the "i hope it costs intel thru the ass" because they deserve it.........even my buddy who works for them says that alot of the people in their test labs feel that way, this isnt something intel didnt know about, they knowingly infringed on this copyright, hoping nobody would catchon.
What struck me as interesting was that this guy designed Core 2 in 1998, and here we are in 2008 using it, and it kicks major ass.
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