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Texas court orders Intel to pay $2.18 billion for two patent infringements
The two patents are owned by VLSI and relate to ways to manage CPU clock speeds and minimum voltages for memory. VLSI has an additional six patent violation claims against Intel, which could amount to $11 billion in damages. Intel denies all allegations and is confident it can avoid these fees through future appeals.
[...] Waco Tribune-Herald and Tom's Hardware note that one of the patents (759) relates to clock speed management and is supposed to represent $1.5 billion in damages, while the other one (373) describes a method to reduce the minimum voltage for memory and totals just $675 million in damages. The other six patent violations are supposed to amount to $7.1 billion, and Intel must also consider future royalties, attorney's fees, interests, procedure costs etc., which could amount to $1.7 billion if VLSI manages to win the entire case.
Another Texas jury weighing in on patents.
Also at Wccftech.
(Score: 5, Informative) by sjames on Wednesday March 03 2021, @11:43PM (1 child)
Note that the plaintiff VLSI is NOT the VLSI we may all remember that used to make chips. They were formed 4 years ago and have no real assets other than a treasure chest of dusty patents and a significant pool of lawyers.
I cannot prove it, but it looks very much lite the entity exists so NXP can keep the patent trolling and potential legal blowback at arms length.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @12:43AM
Now this is the type of info that should be the summary.
Guess the old VLSI got swallowed up by others?
Mod the parent up.