Portion of Intel Antitrust Suit Dismissed
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A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed portions of a class-action suit that accused Intel of violating antitrust laws.
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Suit alleges illegal kickbacks to Dell from Intel were concealed.
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Intel agreed on Wednesday to settle a dispute with Transmeta&#160;for $250 million, ending patent litigation between both companies.Under the agreement, Intel will pay Transmeta $150 million initially and $20 million in each of the next five years. In exchange, Intel will be granted a right to license Transmeta patents for use in future products. It will also end pending patent litigation between both companies and release all claims between them.Transmeta, based in Santa Clara, California, sued Intel&#160;in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in October last year, claiming some Intel processors violated 10 Transmeta patents covering processor design and power-efficiency techniques. Nine patents covered basic processor functions like scheduling and addressing instructions on a chip, and the tenth related to Transmeta&#39;s LongRun technology, used to adjust a processor&#39;s voltage based on its workload.In January,&#160;Intel countersued Transmeta&#160;for infringing seven patents, also alleging Transmeta withheld and mischaracterized information about other patents and technologies in its patent applications.Under the agreement, Intel will be in a binding agreement not to sue Transmeta for the development and licensing of LongRun technology to third parties, Transmeta said in a statement.Transmeta, founded in 1995, tried to break Intel&#39;s dominance in the notebook PC market with its Crusoe processor, which allowed PCs to run longer by reducing power consumption. Consumers responded poorly to the processor, leading to Transmeta changing its business model to licensing its technology.The settlement pumped life into Transmeta&#39;s stock (TMTA), which rose 253.11 percent to $14.76 on the Nasdaq stock exchange Wednesday.&#160;The company faced delisting in March&#160;when its stock price dropped to under $1.Transmeta reported a net loss of $11.5 million and revenue of $171,000 for the most recent quarter ending June 30. Earlier this year, Intel&#39;s rival,&#160;AMD, invested $7.5 million in the cash-strapped Transmeta.Intel&#39;s settlement agreement will realize immediate financial value for Transmeta&#39;s intellectual-property rights and will support the company&#39;s technology development and licensing business, said Les Crudele, the president and CEO of Transmeta, in a statement.Intel could not be reached for comment.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--An attorney for Advanced Micro Devices, longtime foe of chip giant Intel, said Tuesday that regulators are less aggressive in going after monopolistic practices in the United States in recent years.
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Qualcomm received some good news on the legal front Friday, with an antitrust suit against it dismissed, and Broadcom agreeing to drop patent infringement suits over Bluetooth technology.
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What might have been a relatively insignificant case brought by a shareware re-distributor against security software firm Kaspersky Labs was granted a landmark dismissal on Tuesday, for reasons whose repercussions could lead to a new shield of legal security for anti-malware firms throughout the US.
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Intel Corp.  on Thursday said it has canceled its plan to enter the digital television chip business, marking a major retreat from an initiative that was intended to broaden the computer chip maker's market focus.
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A federal court judge on Thursday  dismissed a lawsuit against Google Inc. by disgruntled  advertising customer Kinderstart that had accused the Web  search leader of monopolistic business practices.
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Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it has scrapped plans to enter the digital television chip business, marking a retreat from a major component of its consumer electronics initiative.
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A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame  and her husband against Vice President Cheney and other top  officials over the Bush administration's disclosure of Plame's name and covert status to the media.
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German chip maker is asking the court to dismiss the patent infringement suit.
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German chip maker Infineon Technologies has filed a motion to dismiss a patent-infringement suit by Rambus.
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A U.S. district court has dismissed an   antitrust suit filed by microchip maker Broadcom Corp. BRCM.O   against Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O, but Broadcom said it would   continue to pursue the case.
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(InfoWorld) - South Korean antitrust regulators have issued preliminary allegations against IntelÂ forÂ allegedly undermining competition in its PC microprocessor market, but formal charges won't be made for at least another month. The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) sent a "statement of objection" to Intel, which contained preliminary allegations, said Nick Jacobs, an Intel spokesman in Singapore. The document is not a final decision, nor has it been upheld by a court. "It does not itself amount to a finding that there has been a violation of law," he said. "As such, any conclusions about our business practices are at best premature." A senior deputy director at South Korea's FTC said the investigation against Intel remains ongoing. The next step for the world's largest chip maker is to respond to the letter of objection, after which the FTC will rule on the case. South Korea could become the third place to rule on an Intel antitrust case. In 2005, Japan's Fair Trade Commission helped kick off the recent spate ofÂ investigations against IntelÂ by ruling that the company's Japan unit stifled competition by offering rebates to Japanese PC makers in return for agreements to limit purchases of or not buy rival x86 microprocessors. Earlier this year, the European Commission ruled similarly,Â alleging that Intel violated EU antitrust lawsÂ by giving rebates to customers that enabled the company to win sales from rival Advanced Micro Devices. AMD filed an antitrust suit against IntelÂ in June, 2005 at the U.S. District Court in Delaware, shortly after Japan's FTC revealed its allegations against the company. "Following formal action in Japan and Europe, global scrutiny is increasingly focused on Intel's harm to competition and consumers alike. Governments around the world must enforce antitrust laws to bring fair and open competition that will benefit computer manufacturers and buyers everywhere," said Tom McCoy, AMD's executive vice president, legal affairs and chief administrative officer, in an e-mail. (Ben Ames in Boston contributed to this report.)
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SAN FRANCISCO - A San Jose, California, judge ruled Monday that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is not entitled to trial documents that the company says might help it prove its European Commission antitrust complaint against Intel Corp.
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Tuesday&#39;s&#160;raid on Intel&#39;s Munich office&#160;by European Commission investigators marks the latest development in one of several antitrust cases that have dogged the world&#39;s largest chip maker for years. Here&#39;s a rundown of Intel&#39;s brushes with antitrust investigators and lawsuits around the world since 1990:
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In the latest twist of a long, ongoing legal dispute, German chip maker Infineon TechnologiesÂ has filed a motion with a U.S. judge to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought against it by Rambus.