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."

Patenting Clippy?

[dont_think_twice]

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?

Clipper Chip?

[orkysoft]

I remember there being a Clipper Chip card in Steve Jackson's Illuminati card game. Does this mean our CPUs are spying on us? ;-)

Re:AMD using monopoly power again!!!

[Jahf]

To paraphrase my H.S. band teacher "I got it, I just didn't want it".

Re:AMD using monopoly power again!!!

[Monkelectric]

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? :)

Re:AMD using monopoly power again!!!

[Jahf]

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?

Does this hurt AMD more than it hurts Intel?

[Gary Destruction]

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. I

I remember Clipper

[PenguinOpus]

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.