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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 27 2019, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the GF-found-something-sue-table dept.

GlobalFoundries Files Patent Claims Against TSMC, Seeks to Ban Imports of Nvidia, Apple Chips

GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the U.S. and Germany over the alleged infringement of 16 patents. The company said that it's looking to halt the import of processors made with the technologies and is seeking "significant damages from TSMC based on TSMC's unlawful use of GF's proprietary technology in its tens of billions of dollars of sales." Impacted companies include Nvidia and Apple.

Note that GlobalFoundries said it wants to stop the import of processors made with the technologies it believes are covered by its patents. The company recognized that TSMC doesn't usually import those processors into the U.S. or Germany; TSMC's customers do. That means the lawsuits could affect much of the tech industry: TSMC said that in 2018 it was "manufacturing 10,436 different products using 261 distinct technologies for 481 different customers."

The list of companies supplied by TSMC includes AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Mediatek and many others, which means that GlobalFoundries could bring the tech industry to a halt if it's allowed to stop imports to the U.S. and Germany.

If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em.

Also at Wccftech.

Related: GlobalFoundries Abandons "7nm LP" Node, TSMC and Samsung to Pick Up the Slack
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @05:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @05:01AM (#885954)

    Just pointing out fake news, amazing that people can be told point blank what is going on but prefer to live in denial. I mean I would obviously prefer for AMDs stock to do down over this to buy more. Nothing said here is going to affect the stock price though.