IP licensing company accuses Intel of infringing chip technology
An IP licensing company has accused Intel of infringing 12 of its patents relating to computer technology.
In a complaint filed at the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, Pact XPP Technologies said its founder, Martin Vorbach had designed a multi-core computer architecture that was “the forerunner of Intel’s multi-core processors”.
Pact said Vorbach was granted more than 70 US patents relating to the technology since 1996, but Intel’s multi-core processors were not released until 2011, years after the priority date of the patents in dispute.
According to the filing, Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” chip architecture infringes Pact’s patents. The architecture allows for communication between multiple processor cores, processor graphics and a cache system.
The filing said most of the computers sold by Intel incorporate this architecture.
Additionally, Pact alleged that in December 2018, Intel hosted an Architecture Day conference in California that allowed Intel’s top executives, architects and fellows to reveal their next-generation technologies to a captive audience.
“During the conference, Intel announced that it had created a new 3D packaging technology, called ‘Foveros’,” the complaint said.
The complaint alleged that the Foveros technology revealed by Intel takes advantage of Pact’s invention disclosed in one of its patents (US patent number 8,686,549), “which Intel has been aware of since 2015”.
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