I haven't looked at the details of the suit but from the description of the patents it seems like a relatively basic thing to do in processor design. It's not like the idea was stolen from them it was just simple enough that other companies implemented it under the assumption that it couldn't be patented.
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Chad @ Nov 17th 2006 2:57PM
I haven't looked at the details of the suit but from the description of the patents it seems like a relatively basic thing to do in processor design. It's not like the idea was stolen from them it was just simple enough that other companies implemented it under the assumption that it couldn't be patented.