Can you imagine any right-minded person working for the Blair Institute?
Posts by Bonzo_red
118 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Feb 2016
On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia
TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs
Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial
LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
EU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance
Re: Interesting...
More likely a trade mark issue. People want to buy phones which are labelled as having Gorilla (R) Glass screens. Corning seems to license the use of its trade marks but requires for 'quality control' that the raw materials are purchased from it. Whether this is a reasonable requirement or not will be what the EU has looked into.
HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate
Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms
Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran
UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer
UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case
Re: So, the patents are invalid in the UK
The UK courts, like those in the US, consider both validity and infringement. In Germany, the state courts consider infrinement but cannot decide on validty for a patent covering the whole counry. There is therefore a federal patent court for deciding on validity only, with cases running in parallel to the infringement case. As the patent court runs a bit slower, the finding on infringement is generally before the finding on validity. The patent owner can therefore be awarded an injunction for a patent which is then declared invalid a few months later.
EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials
The chip that changed my world – and yours
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs
UK elections are unaffected by China's cyber-interference, says deputy PM
Beijing-backed cyberspies attacked 70+ orgs across 23 countries
Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public
Re: Patents were created to avoid the "trade secret" problem.
In the term "Letters Patent", the "patent" bit means "open" as in not secret. So by being granted a "letter patent" you are opening up your secrets to the world. Patent is derived from the Latin pateo, to lie open, exposed, accessible.
Apple pulls Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 from shelves in US after Masimo patent brawl
Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production
German budget woes threaten chip fab funding for Intel and TSMC
Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs
Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict
That is a generalized summary of the patent, not the claimed scope of protection, which reads, for example, "a system for processing information, the system comprising: a memory configured to hold data; at least two processors, each configured to perform operations, and to generate an access request when one of the operations involves access to the data, wherein each access request includes an indication of whether or not this occurrence of the access request is to be performed in a sequential order among other occurrences of the access request and, if so, an indication of a specified order; and a controller configured to receive the access requests from each of the processors, to determine a performance order for the access requests, and to provide the access requests to the memory in the performance order, wherein the performance order conforms to the specified order when the access requests indicate the specified order."
Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch
CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy
Re: Ukraine is a (large) straw that broke the camel's back
Strategic gas storage? You mean the two weeks' storage? Hardly strategic compared with Germany's 2 months' but then Germany doesn't have much North Sea gas. The UK's storage was only ever there to smooth out the supply/demand differences.
Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany
Re: This fab is going to require electricity, I assume.
Electricity is one problem but a lack of water supplies is going to be an even bigger one. Elon's Tesla plant had problems because the environmentalists considered it would be extracting too much ground water and this fab is going to need a lot more than Tesla.