Intel was again ... led to court

Chipmaker Transmeta, once an illusionist, took Intel's place in the microprocessor chip market for computers but failed to sue Intel for copyright infringement.

In the case file filed with the Delaware District Court of First Instance (Santa Clara, California, USA) the other day (October 11), Transmeta accused the world's leading chip manufacturer of illegally using 10 copies. Intellectual property rights of the company to produce and trade Intel's own products with a total value of more than $ 100 billion.

Intel products that are subject to Transmeta are sued as the P6 chip generation - including Pentium Pro and Pentium II - and the generation of Core 2 Duo processors.

John Horsely - Transmeta's lawyer chief - said Intel violated intellectual property rights related to energy-saving technology and 'Enhanced SpeedStep' technology - the technology that allows a chip to be put in condition. rest when not working to save energy. Or some other technologies such as 'instruction scheduling' technology or microarchitecture technology.

Transmeta is the first company to focus on energy savings in microprocessor chips. This is a problem that even now chip manufacturers have not found a really effective solution. Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessor chip is the first chip to use energy-saving technology. The manufacturer claims that the chip can completely run software similar to Intel's, but consumes far less power.

Transmeta was unable to develop the Crusoe chip, so contracts with a number of vendors such as Sony or Fujitsu about the application of this microprocessor chip product were in turn canceled. This makes Transmeta suffer a million dollar loss every year. From January 1998 to June 2005, Transmeta lost a total of 635 million USD, its revenue in the same period was only 134 million USD.

Intel declined to comment on the information and said it has yet to receive any information about Transmeta's lawsuit.

Transmeta Art Swift's attorney Horsely and CEU did not say whether the company took the next step to sue PC makers who used Intel's "copyright infringement" chips. Horsely also declined to say whether AMD was the next subject to Transmeta lawsuit.

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