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VIA and Intel settle legal war

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On April 8, 2003, 2:49 AM

VIA Technologies today announced that VIA and Intel Corporation have reached a settlement agreement in a series of pending patent lawsuits related to chipsets and microprocessors. The agreement encompasses 11 pending cases in five countries involving 27 patents.

As part of the agreement Intel granted VIA a license to sell microprocessors that are compatible with the x86 instruction set but not pin compatible or bus compatible with Intel microprocessors.

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  1. April 8, 2003 3:40 AM
    Mictlantecuhtli said:
    So it means there will be no VIA CPUs for Socket 478 / 603. No competition but more motherboard incompatibility..
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