Adeia is one of those companies that capitalizes on intellectual property and plays with patents to make money. How do they do this? By registering patents at will, sometimes broad or ambiguous. Then, by granting licenses and taking legal action against companies that “infringe” said patents. Today, we learn that the company has found its new target: AMD, which finds itself before the courts for patent infringement (obviously) in connection with 3D V-Cache or advanced engraving node technologies.
AMD sued for patent infringement, including 3D V-Cache!
In fact, this company is taking legal action to enforce its intellectual property rights, which AMD is alleged to have infringed. We’re talking about a total of ten patents relating to manufacturing processes and hybrid link technology.
According to Adeia, AMD has been infringing the company’s intellectual property for too long, and legal action is the only way for the company to assert its rights… Unless they can find common ground to settle the matter out of court.
This leaves AMD with two choices: either the brand goes to court and embarks on a lengthy trial that could potentially be lost, with all the consequences that implies: heavy damages, potential royalties to be paid to Adeia for years of exploiting its patents without consent, or even withdrawal of the incriminated products. Either the Reds try to settle this matter out of court, the two entities agree on a large cheque and move on. Which option is more profitable for the Reds remains to be seen.
In any case, Adeia would have already gone after NVIDIA in 2023 and the matter was settled behind closed doors with compensation paid by the Chameleon.
This raises the question of the timing of this lawsuit. Why wait until the third-generation X3D processor to sue the Reds? Why not go after TSMC, which produces the CPUs in question? Etc. etc. It’s a practice we consider detestable, since the patents registered by Adeia are not exploited by the company itself. The company does nothing but create intellectual property, grant licenses and file lawsuits.
