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England's ARM holds on to chip-licensing top spot
News So-called IP semiconductor companies -- which earn their money by licensing designs and patents to chip businesses that in turn make or sell semiconductors under their own names -- grew faster than the chip market as a whole in terms of revenue...
[June 19, 2003, 14:12]
Intel, AMD spar over patent-licensing dispute
News AMD announced on Monday that Intel plans to pull its 2001 cross-licensing patent agreement in the next 60 days, unless concerns surrounding AMD's joint-venture chip foundry are addressed. Under the 2001 Intel-AMD patent cross-licensing agreement...
[March 17, 2009, 7:22]
Nvidia revamps chipset line
News Nvidia last year signed a licensing agreement with AMD to create chipsets that work with the company's Athlon processors. Hyunh said Nvidia had no plans to enter the market for Pentium-compatible chipsets, which would require a licensing agreement...
[July 17, 2002, 6:57]
A Year Ago: Intel, Sun to shake hands
News The announcement will reportedly concern cross-licensing of technologies, and an agreement by Sun to port its Solaris operating system to Merced, which Intel jointly developed with Hewlett-Packard Co.
[December 16, 1998, 4:38]
Hardware trends may hit software costs
News Gartner claims the move to multi-core chip architectures, virtualised hardware and utility computing threatens existing capacity or processing (CPU)-based licensing agreements offered by the major software vendors.
[November 23, 2004, 15:45]
Chips may be down for Transmeta manufacturing
News Instead of making and selling processors, the company would instead focus more of its energy on licensing chip technology to third parties. In the most recent quarter, licensing revenue came to $3.7m, while chip sales came to $3.3m.
[January 5, 2005, 8:15]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News The move toward such licensing and partnerships represents two intersecting trends, one within IBM and the other within the chip industry as a whole. The company has begun licensing its PowerPC chip, offering chip design services and launching a...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Sun to open Sparc's doors
News The Sparc chip specifications have been available for years to those who pay a fee to licensing organization Sparc International. Semi, and Big Blue is trying to promote wider use through its Power.org licensing programme.
[December 7, 2005, 8:30]
AMD invests in chip designer Transmeta
News Transmeta has seen its financial performance squeezed as it has transitioned from being a chip designer and manufacturer to a company that focuses on licensing its technology. With the restructuring to an intellectual property licensing company...
[July 9, 2007, 8:13]
Transmeta to license AMD technology
News When asked if the licensing agreement might lead to a closer relationship between the two chip companies, Weber described the agreement as an "instance of cooperation". The chipmakers -- long rumoured to be fostering a close relationship -- will...
[May 25, 2001, 10:10]
Redmond announces free multi-core support
News We don't believe that charging for chip processor improvements is in the best interest of the industry," said Cori Hartje, director of marketing and readiness in Microsoft's worldwide licensing and pricing group.
[October 19, 2004, 9:15]
Transmeta retreats from manufacturing
News England's ARM has become a staple in the mobile phone business through licensing chip designs. Instead, the company plans to rely on licensing its intellectual property, and engineering and consulting services.
[April 1, 2005, 9:15]
Broadcom concedes Intel patent battle
News Broadcom said on Friday that it will pay rival chipmaker Intel $60m (£37.09m) in cash and submit to technology cross-licensing agreements rather than stand up to pending patent litigation. The various lawsuits filed in federal courts and with the...
[August 8, 2003, 15:20]
Sun to distribute chips
News Sun plans to eliminate the existing upfront licensing fee for its microprocessor designs in hopes of attracting a broad new community of developers. Companies that sell products based on the designs ultimately will face licensing fees, but only...
[March 3, 1999, 10:46]
AMD ready to run up the score
News However, it appears that the discussions with Transmeta centre on the startup chip maker licensing AMD's Lightning Data Transport bus technology. We've been out licensing this," he said. Advanced Micro Devices is looking to turn up the performance...
[August 24, 2000, 11:45]
Rambus settles SDRAM patent dispute
News The licensing fees, which will be paid on a quarterly basis beginning on 15 November, will conclude in 2007. After that period, Infineon may make additional quarterly payments that can accumulate up to $100m, provided other DRAM manufacturers enter...
[March 22, 2005, 8:35]
Intel 'done with Intergraph'
News Today's settlement demonstrates the effectiveness of our intellectual-property licensing and litigation actions to date. We believe this settlement and the related licensing agreements are in the best interests of our shareholders and will allow us...
[March 31, 2004, 8:25]
IBM and AMD form chip alliance
News Licensing its technology, and manufacturing chips for other companies, opens revenue streams for Big Blue. Late last year, IBM signed a joint manufacturing and technology licensing deal with Chartered Semiconductor, a foundry that makes chips for...
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
IBM licenses 45nm technology in China
News We are excited about the SMIC-IBM licensing partnership, which will accelerate SMIC technology advancement in logic process technology and help us provide optimal solutions for our customers at our 300mm facilities," said Matthew Szymanski, vice...
[December 27, 2007, 11:08]
Startup aims to inject zing into Net telephony
News Schlachte said BOPS will concentrate on the network equipment market first, licensing the technology to companies that make chips for Internet telephony equipment created by the likes of Cisco Systems and others.
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
