Intel sued for Core 2 Duo patent infringement -- by the University of Wisconsin
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 7th 2008 11:34AM
posted February 7th 2008 11:34AM
Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown -- a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors. Back in 1998, CS department chair Gurindar Sohi presented some of his developments relating to instruction level parallelism to Intel and offered to license them, but got nowhere -- yet the same tech is in the Core 2 Duo, according to the lawsuit. For its part, Intel says it's been talking to the Badgers for over a year now, and that it hasn't evaluated the complaint -- which it might want to do in short order, since UW's asking for the court to halt shipments of the Core 2 Duo in addition to monetary damages and legal fees.[Thanks, Matt G.]
The fine citizens of Wisconsin benefit by paying less in taxes to support the university, as the royalty payments can be used instead. No refunds.
in reply to Samurai Jack:
Yeah that will happen.....
I'm sure the good Board of Education and University Board will expect less money from the Taxpayers if they receive money from this.
Because of course, ALL public universities do not expect more money every year than the year before....
Universities take "Cuts" in their budget like the State and Federal Government do.
Cuts = smaller increases than they want
Cuts!= less money than the year before.
Go Wisconsin!
Beer + Cheese = crazy technology!
Ah Intel...
First you screw over AMD out of the 32bit 386 architecture and now Core 2 Dual out of University of Wisconsin...
Won't you ever learn!!!
not to mention screwing over Transmeta for its IP on low power chips, eventually having to settle. Looks like UW will be getting around $600m. $$!
Wait one sec...they have computers in Wisconsin? What next? A doctor just for your teeth?
Yeah. Seymour Cray? From Chippewa Falls. As was Cray Research. You know, supercomputers. Those crazy beasts that used to solve the world's most difficult mathmatical problems....
...and now those math problems are outsourced to India.
AMD should be grabbing some licensing right about now.
I declare this post in violation of the 'Mandatory Apple Product Mention' rule. I mean, rilly, if you don't mention Apple, the trolls will have nothing to whine about...
Stupid comment of the day.
I guess you're now the troll.
Actually UW CS department chair Gurindar Sohi is Indian American. Don't you remember Vinod Dham, the Pentium dood another Indian American.
So eating cheese is OK, it may freeze your heart. But eating Curry is better for your brain and heart.
Good good. Don't let the monopolistic Intel get away with this. Give them a big fat fine. We really need more competition in this space. Intel is the Microsoft of CPUs and that got to CHANGE!
Well, if that is the case...remember that FedEx was designed in college as a thesis and Napster also...but I do not hear any of the universities suing those guys. Oh yeah, also Facebook also was done by a college students.
I have an idea for the universities...STFU before these smart kids bypass school all together and leave you wondering where the next tuition is coming from.
Just a thought.
Sounds like someone hasn't actually attended a University.
Please learn to read. UW and Professor Sohi (who is still at UW) are the people who developed this technology. It's not like it was some random UW student who went on to work for Intel.
I hope this reduces my tuition bill
That would definitely be a nice gift from the UW to us.
Fortune teller tells me that Intel is gonna go down and AMD is gonna go up up up!
I had Prof Sohi for an architectures class and let me tell you, he is one of the most intelligent profs I've ever had. It makes perfect sense that he helped out if not single handedly created this tech.
As a side note, Sohi may be a genius but the guy will put you to sleep in his lectures. He also has a bit of an odor...
haha, intel was just here(UW) yesterday recruiting at the engineering career fair, and the next day they announce this. I think it would have been better timing to announce the day before...
Why now?
They're just jealous that they didn't get a slice of the cash. Why do people feel like they can sue a company for being too successful? No one ever sues Apple or AMD.
Somebody give Intel a twix
This is the same University of Wisconsin that sued a WV school for "using their W"
Piss off, babies.