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TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) today announced they are dismissing all litigation between them as well as those that involve any of their customers. The companies have agreed to a broad life-of-patents cross-license to each other’s worldwide existing semiconductor patents as well as those patents that will be filed during the next ten years as both companies continue to invest significantly in semiconductor research and development.

This resolution guarantees TSMC and GF freedom to operate and ensures that their respective customers will continue to have access to each foundry's complete array of technologies and services.

 

Well that went on longer then I expected. Now they get to share patents... Well looks like a win for consumers as far as I can tell or is this basically like a pseudo monopoly 

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Sort of surprising, and yet not really. Because for either to continue they'd both need to cooperate.

 

Good to see them finally shake hands and move on. 

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Kind of expecting this, the legal costs would have been tremendous anyways.

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what a huge waste of money

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what a colossal misuse as regards funds

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2 hours ago, floofer said:

what a colossal misuse as regards funds

Eh, not really. It gives them some advantage against Samsung and Intel.

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14 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

Sort of surprising, and yet not really. Because for either to continue they'd both need to cooperate.

 

Good to see them finally shake hands and move on. 

Finally? This is the quickest turn around for massive cross patent lawsuits between two corporate giants I have ever seen.

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Interesting.... GloFo 7nm when?

 

I don't think it works that way though, anyone who has better knowledge care to comment?

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On 10/29/2019 at 8:34 AM, GOTSpectrum said:

Interesting.... GloFo 7nm when?

 

I don't think it works that way though, anyone who has better knowledge care to comment?

GloFlo already had their own 7nm process in development and abandoned it a year or two ago, presumably due to the expense of the fabs themselves. I'm pretty sure that they are just too small to sustain the R&D and upfront investment these smaller nodes require and just wanted to focus on the "easy" stuff. 

 

I doubt that even with access to TSMC's patent's they would want to open that whole can of worms again. 

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