Settlement reached in 3-year patent lawsuit as two international semiconductor majors shake hands and make peace
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Update time : 2022-11-22 17:23:14
In December 2019, ADI filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against Ceres, now an AMD subsidiary, alleging that Ceres had used eight important patents on ADI's analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology in at least two of its high-end Zynq UltraScale+RFSoC products without authorization. Celeris from selling any products that infringe its patents and seeks damages.
And with the completion of AMD's acquisition of Ceres for a whopping US$49.8 billion in February this year, this also meant that AMD had to face a lawsuit from ADI.
The trial of ADI's claim was originally scheduled to begin in March this year. However, the court put the case on hold last year to pursue related patent validity proceedings at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The case was dismissed on 14 November after the parties reached an agreement.
Neither AMD nor ADI announced the specifics of the agreement. ADI declined to comment, and representatives from AMD did not immediately respond to requests for more information. But the end of the settlement and the commitment to work together suggests that the benefits of their cooperation outweigh the competition.
According to the data, Ceres is the world's leading FPGA vendor, with data from the General Administration of Market Regulation showing that in 2020, Ceres ranked first with a market share of 50-55% and 50%-55% for FPGAs globally and within China, respectively.
Now, with the end of the patent dispute between AMD and ADI, the two international semiconductor majors have shaken hands and made peace. And on top of that, the two companies have committed to a technology partnership to provide next-generation solutions for communications and data centre customers.
