While I understand, this is larger. Apple is one of the richest things to be fined and taxed. Technology itself is not left or right but Apple is an example of the snake they feed, comes back to eat you.
I just did a quick-down-and-dirty search for look-ahead predictive processor patents on Duch-duck-go, and got 143,000 hits for algorithms and circuits ranging back to 1962, including patents issued to Apple and IBM for both 32bit and 64 bit architecture processors, some for the PowerPC family used in the Apple Mac starting in 1998 for 32 bit, and 2003 for full 64 bit. 1998 was mainframe 64 bit. . . Windows was 32bit with some 64 bit addressing enabled but not processing in 1998. I found 64bit circuitry diagrams for processor component patents from 2005 onward, NOT licensed to WARF or any mention of them as prior art in the patent listing. Apple could have licensed any of these or used their own design. This is what is called by now “OBVIOUS DESIGN” to any general practitioner of the field, and is incorporated in ALL processor designs. It’s not patentable. . . That’s why WARF sued only small or not interested in fighting entities who’d settle out of court. In the past Apple might have done just that for a few tens of millions, looking on it as a contribution to education, but three years ago, as a matter of policy, to discourage patent trolls, if there is no case, Apple will fight, regardless of who the plaintiff is.