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German Court Bans Sales of Select Intel CPUs in Germany Over Patent Dispute
by Anton Shilov on February 7, 2024 5:30 PM EST - Posted in - CPUs - Intel - Patents - R2 Semiconductor A German court has sided with R2 Semiconductor against Intel, ruling that the chip giant infringed one of R2's patent. This decision could lead to sales ban of select Intel processors as well as products based on them in Germany.
The regional court in Düsseldorf, Germany, ruled that Intel infringed a patent covering an integrated voltage regulator technology that belongs to Palo Alto, California-based R2 Semiconductor. "We are delighted that the highly respected German court has issued an injunction and unequivocally found that Intel has infringed R2's patents for integrated voltage regulators," said David Fisher, CEO of R2. R2 claims that Intel planned to invest in R2 in 2015, about two years after the company first brought its Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator (FIVR) technology to market with its 4 th Generation Core 'Haswell' processors, but then abandoned talks.
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