Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Dell and Intel Sued - With Merit?
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"A chip design company that was once one of Silicon Valley's highfliers filed a patent infringement suit against Intel and Dell, contending the companies have copied its technology for multimedia computing.
The lawsuit was filed by MicroUnity Systems Engineering, which was founded in 1988 by John Moussouris, a physicist and computer designer.
Mr. Moussouris, a member of a pioneering group of researchers at I.B.M. who invented a computer technology known as reduced instruction set computing, or RISC, was also a co-founder of the MIPS Computer Company. MicroUnity was able to license several basic semiconductor manufacturing techniques."
There have been more than a few apparently "frivolous" lawsuits cropping up lately that affect PPCs, but this one caught my attention as possibly having some merit. True, the company probably would not be suing if it was doing well financially, but Mr. Moussouris strikes me as having better credentials than most of the other lawsuits I've seen recently.
As part of the group that came up with RISC, his influence is in each and every one of our devices. On the other hand, a win for his side could increase the cost of Pocket PC's.
The lawsuit was filed by MicroUnity Systems Engineering, which was founded in 1988 by John Moussouris, a physicist and computer designer.
Mr. Moussouris, a member of a pioneering group of researchers at I.B.M. who invented a computer technology known as reduced instruction set computing, or RISC, was also a co-founder of the MIPS Computer Company. MicroUnity was able to license several basic semiconductor manufacturing techniques."
There have been more than a few apparently "frivolous" lawsuits cropping up lately that affect PPCs, but this one caught my attention as possibly having some merit. True, the company probably would not be suing if it was doing well financially, but Mr. Moussouris strikes me as having better credentials than most of the other lawsuits I've seen recently.
As part of the group that came up with RISC, his influence is in each and every one of our devices. On the other hand, a win for his side could increase the cost of Pocket PC's.
