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RE: "What do you think about this latest debacle? It's not bloody likely that Intel could have infringed on a patent in the Pentium III without TMTA knowing it until today. Either it's something they were holding off on because their own processors infringed on 10x as many patents that Intel owns, in which case they have nothing more to fear, since their processor line is now effectively non-existent. Or, it's an easily defendable generalistic patent as far as wording, to which probably tons of prior art already exists, and TMTA just figures it's worth a shot in the dark, in the hopes that one of the 10 patents they mention has a chance of hitting them with a settlement."

I think that Transmeta has been trying to ethically collect payment from Intel for some time. Since all the the respective pending patents have been granted to Transmeta they feel they now have enough ammo (or maybe even a smoking gun) for some litigation. If anyone is interested here is the complaint against Intel: http://www.transmeta.com/corporate/ir/061011_transmeta_complaint.pdf