A court in Germany has issued an injunction against the sale of some of Intel’s chips, after finding in favour of a rival US company that had accused Intel of infringing its patent. The ramifications of Wednesday’s ruling could be far-reaching and lead to a ban on the sale of HP and Dell products containing the Intel chips at the centre of the patent dispute, a person familiar with the matter said.
https://www.ft.com/content/981f3b39-30f5-4da2-9819-23bebc1a8846
Stealing other company design for their own product development same as stealing its own engineers time to pay for CEO and laywers.
Magdeburg is a great big photo for a bunch of Intel veterans and new no hoper arrivals to stand behind. That’s all. A complete white elephant, never gonna happen…. btw what ever happened the Italian 5bn investment??? 😉🤣
If it’s just Germany, which is busy de-industrializing itself anyway, seems like the impact would be minimal.
Looks like the Magdeburg plant won’t be happening.
Because paywall (FT can kma):
https://www.reuters.com/technology/german-court-rules-against-intel-patent-row-over-chips-2024-02-07/