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SAN JOSE, California, Oct 10, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A federal judge in Texas ruled against chip-making giant Intel Corp. in a long-running dispute with Intergraph Corp. over patents involving the Itanium processor. U.S. District Judge T. John Ward agreed Thursday that Intel's high-performance chip infringed on the patents invented by Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph, now a computer services company. In the suit, Intergraph claimed Intel's Itanium processor infringed on two patents related to parallel instruction computing. Intel's total liability is limited to $250 million because of a previous agreement reached as part of another patent fight between...

Intel faces coughing up to Intergraph again On-going Itanic courtcase could cost Intel $250mil By Paul Hales: Thursday 04 July 2002, 09:43 CHIPMAKER INTERGRAPH must be miffed with Intel -- or grateful. Chipzilla paid Intergraph $300 million earlier this year after the five years of legal wranglings in a courtcase that charged that Intel had infringed Intergraph's patents in the design of the Pentium processor. Now, a district court judge in Texas is to decide whether Intel has again infringed Intergraph's patents again, this time on the Itanium processor. And, Intergraph says Intel has already agreed to pay Intergraph $150...