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AMD, Intergraph Settle Patent Lawsuit
CTho9305 writes "AMD and Intergraph settled a patent lawsuit over Intergraph's 'Clipper' patents. AMD has agreed to pay up to $25 million between now and 2007 to license the patents. Intel settled a lawsuit with Integraph over the 'Clipper' patents back in March."
Who the hell would patent Clippy? That thing is annoying. And now we are gonna have him in the CPU?
I see you are trying to push onto the stack. Would you like help with that?
I remember there being a Clipper Chip card in Steve Jackson's Illuminati card game. Does this mean our CPUs are spying on us? ;-)
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
To paraphrase my H.S. band teacher "I got it, I just didn't want it".
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Intel in the past has boasted profits of $2 billion dollars. AMD has made some substantial headway in the market, but doesn't have nearly as much cash as Intel. Sure it's only $25 million, but for Intel to fork over $225 million dollars and boast profits of $2 billion, it seems that AMD still gets hit hardest. 2% of profit doesn't seem like much, but when you're up against a big time company like Intel, you don't have the option of making many mistakes. Look at Intel deciding to trash their Itanium chips. Intel literally has money to burn.
Clipper was the first RISC CPU. It replaced Intergraph's N32032 based-workstations with a 33Mhz, 5 MIPS (what part of that is "RISC"??) processor. As compared to the 32032, though, it rocked.
Compilers were tricky, Green Hills was the only choice.
Good name for a dog... bushdog, RIP.
his name wasnt jeff and he didnt once say "Give me what I thought you had instead of what I know you've got!" did he? :)
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
No, but they do sound related ... did yours go through his age 30 pre-mid-life crisis while you were there, getting an ear ring and occasionally looking VERY hungover on a schoolday?
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