Opti sues AMD

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on November 18th, 2006, 09:01 PM

US chip-related intellectual property company Opti has accused AMD of infringing three of its patents, all centring on techniques microprocessors can use to predict cache memory access requirements. Opti's lawsuit, filed with the US District Court for the Eastern Texas, claims AMD is shipping CPUs that use such techniques and that AMD does so without its permission. It also claimed AMD "induced" other companies to infringe the patents too - in other words, by selling allegedly infringing processors to its customers.

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**Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv on November 18th, 2006, 10:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Regeneration

US chip-related intellectual property company Opti has accused AMD of infringing three of its patents, all centring on techniques microprocessors can use to predict cache memory access requirements. Opti's lawsuit, filed with the US District Court for the Eastern Texas, claims AMD is shipping CPUs that use such techniques and that AMD does so without its permission. It also claimed AMD "induced" other companies to infringe the patents too - in other words, by selling allegedly infringing processors to its customers.

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wtf??
who would think that amd will do something stupid like that???