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England's ARM Holds On To Chip-licensing Top Spot
News ARM and Rambus retained their positions as the top two companies specialising in intellectual property for semiconductors. See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors.
[June 19, 2003, 14:12]
Rambus' Patent Warfare
News Munich-based Infineon -- formerly Siemens Semiconductors -- is a giant in the semiconductor market. Industry observers say Rambus appears to be aiming for the biggest game in its hunt for intellectual property revenues.
[August 14, 2000, 17:02]
Transmeta Retreats From Manufacturing
News As part of the overhaul, Sony reiterated that it is licensing Transmeta's LongRun2 technology and is likely to incorporate it into semiconductors. Instead, the company plans to rely on licensing its intellectual property, and engineering and...
[April 1, 2005, 9:15]
Tiny Firm Takes On Intel
News Patriot has said that its intellectual property has been incorporated into $150bn worth of semiconductors. Its suit seeks a ruling that Intel's intellectual property does not infringe Patriot's patents.
[February 11, 2004, 10:35]
Via Claims Victory In Intel Suit
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Earlier this year, Intel filed a series of suits in North America, Europe and Asia alleging that Via's chipsets for the Pentium 4 violate its intellectual property.
[December 14, 2001, 16:30]
UK Leads Europe In Chip Design
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Britain accounted for 39.2 percent out of a total of $1.99bn (about £1.27bn) of revenues from European contract design, fabless and silicon intellectual property...
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
Tessera Aims To Wrap Up IPO
News Two and a half billion semiconductors with the packaging have already been made. A year from now, the company will square off against Samsung Electronics in an intellectual-property lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of...
[October 30, 2003, 14:45]
Intel Threatens New Round Of Chipset Lawsuits
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Intel sued Via in the United States, England and Singapore, also naming First International Computer and Everex, two companies owned by the same conglomerate, alleging...
[August 10, 2001, 16:55]
Via Wins Another Round Against Intel
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Intel claims that a chipset created by Via to work with AMD's Athlon processor violates its intellectual property. As a result, Via did not infringe upon Intel's...
[December 7, 2001, 9:32]
Sony's Digital Cameras 'infringe Patents' - Kodak
News Meuchner noted that Kodak has more than 1,000 patents worldwide that relate to digital cameras, including patents covering CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductors) and CCD (charge-coupled device) image sensors, as well as emerging...
[March 10, 2004, 8:45]
Intel Vs. Via - Now The Battle's Global
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Those inventions and the underlying intellectual property are the cornerstone of our business and significant assets. Like any other valuable asset, Intel has an...
[September 27, 2001, 9:02]
Chip Designers Paint A Brighter Picture
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Processor cores, the largest segment of the semiconductor intellectual property market, accounted for $292m in revenue in 2001.
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
Ericsson, STMicro Form Semiconductor Joint Venture
News Ericsson and STMicroelectronics have formed a joint venture to sell semiconductors and platforms to mobile manufacturers. By combining the complementary strengths and product offerings of Ericsson and ST in platforms and semiconductors, the joint...
[August 20, 2008, 13:36]
Taiwanese Firms Share Chip Secrets
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. The group, tentatively named the Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) Qualification Alliance, is made up of Taiwan's largest semiconductor players, including United...
[April 14, 2003, 13:03]
Mobile Internet And Bluetooth Boost Parthus
News The companies who manufacture semiconductors for mobile devices, such as Texas Instruments, Nokia, Ericsson, Intel and others, may have been landed with the chip industry's worst-ever year, but they have no plans to cut their research and...
[July 24, 2001, 14:42]
VIA Deal With IDT Keeps Heat On Intel
News Almost 70 percent of the company's revenue comes from semiconductors built for the communications market, he said. That gives VIA two sets of x86-compatible intellectual property and two design teams in its battle to take on Intel in the low-cost...
[August 6, 1999, 9:10]
Court: Itanium Infringes Patents
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. This ruling validates Intergraph's patents, and paves the way for Intergraph's Intellectual Property (IP) Division to actively pursue open licensing with others...
[October 11, 2002, 7:40]
China Advances Home-grown Chips
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. Chinese scientists say they have developed the country's first mobile phone chip, and are readying a 64-bit processor for servers, major steps forward in China's ambition...
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
European Chip Sales To Fall 33 Percent
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. For the next two years growth will be fuelled by the increasing importance of chip intellectual property (IP) companies, the entry of China into the World Trade...
[November 27, 2001, 15:18]
SanDisk To Sue STMicroelectronics For Patent Infringement
News Geneva-based STMicroelectronics, the sixth largest semiconductor supplier in the world, receives more than $1bn of its revenue from chips it sells in the United States, ranging from flash memory to semiconductors for printers and monitors.
[October 18, 2004, 16:45]
