Intel sagsøger VIA

Vi vidste det ville ske, spørgsmålet var hvornår, men nu er det altså sket, Intel har sagsøgt VIA for at lancere deres P4X266 og P4M266 chipsets. VIA's Apollo P4X266 var det første chipset med support for både Intels Pentium 4 processor og DDR-SDRAM.

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel on Friday filed suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware. The lawsuit alleges that Via's P4X266 and P4M266 chipsets, which were released earlier this month, infringe on five Intel patents. S3, a former graphics chip powerhouse that is working with Via on the chipsets, was also named as a defendant.

Via's two chipsets essentially allow computer makers to put DDR DRAM, a high-speed form of standard computer memory, inside computers with Pentium 4 chips. Currently, only Rambus memory can be used inside Pentium 4 computers, although chipsets that let PC makers use ordinary SDRAM will come out Monday.

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