Judge Says Intel Infringed Intergraph Patents
This just in from Reuters:
Intel's Itanium and Itanium 2 microprocessors use technology developed by computer-service firm Intergraph Corp, a judge ruled on Thursday, a decision that could cost the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer as much as $250 million.
A U.S. federal court ruled that Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, had infringed on two patents held by Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph. Intergraph's lawsuit alleged that Intel had violated patents covering so-called parallel-instruction computing, or PIC.
The PIC technology is used in Intel's Itanium chips, which are designed for high-end, heavy-duty computing, and crunch data in 64-bit chunks compared with 32-bit chunks crunched by Intel's Pentium processors.
In his ruling, Judge T. John Ward of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in Marshall, Texas, found that both Intergraph's patents are "valid and enforceable."
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