Nvidia readies Intel-disputed chip
Nvidia is readying silicon that would work with Intel's newest processor design, but Intel claims Nvidia does not have the legal rights to make companion chips for its newest processors, reports CNET News.
In February, Intel alleged in a lawsuit that the four-year-old chipset licence agreement with Nvidia does not extend to Intel's future-generation processors with "integrated" memory controllers, such as its 'Nehalem' Core i series of processors.
The Nvidia chipset is companion silicon to the main processor, with integrated memory controllers built into the processor itself to increase performance between the processor and memory.
MS can avoid legal damage
Microsoft found itself ordered to stop selling current versions of Word, as well as pay millions in fines, to a small Canadian company, i4i, over an XML-related patent violation, according to eWeek.
However, Microsoft has both legal appeals and code-based workarounds that could prevent it from being damaged by the ruling.
An analyst suggested that the relevance of i4i's XML patent may prove short-lived.
Rambus to sue chip manufacturers
Rambus, the designer of chips for Sony's PlayStation videogame console, won a court ruling allowing the company to continue pursuing its competition claims against memory chip manufacturers, says Australian IT.
A California appeals court denied a request by Micron Technology to block some claims from going forward. Rambus rose $1.94, or 12.3%, to $17.75 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.
Micron's request that the appeals court reconsider rulings made by judge Richard Kramer in San Francisco, and set aside the judge's denial of Micron's bid to dismiss the case, was the last such attempt by the manufacturers, said Jeff Schreiner, an analyst at San Diego-based Capstone Investments.
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