Intel faces threat of new clone chip from Cyrix, files lawsuit over patents
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Cyrix Corp is marketing low-cost microprocessors that imitate the performance of Intel Corp's 80386SX and 80486 microprocessors, prompting Intel to file a law suit against Cyrix for patent infringement. The announcements caused Intel's stock to fall $3.50, to $55.25, and drop 15 percent from the week before. Intel feels that Cyrix's new chips are more of a threat to other Intel imitators, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) and Chips and Technologies Inc, than to Intel itself. Still, Intel holds that Cyrix has infringed upon its intellectual property, while Cyrix claims that the chips are made by a company that licenses Intel's patents. Cyrix hopes to surpass AMD in the chip 'clone' market and share the integrated circuit market with Intel alone. Cyrix filed antitrust charges against Intel in 1991 that claim customers were intimidated illegally to keep Cyrix out of the market. Intel already has a suit pending against Cyrix for its coprocessor patent infringement.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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Advanced Micro stock sinks 6.5% to $29 after admissions about Intel chip clone
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Stock prices for Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) fell 6.5 percent, or $2 per share, after the company admits that its clone of the Intel 80486 microprocessor, the Am486SX, may be based in part on embedded software instructions from the 80386 chip. The clone had been hailed as an original, 'clean-room,' clone of the popular Intel chip. At the Jul 6, 1993 introduction of the clone, AMD representatives claimed that the product was free of any borrowed code; however, now Advanced chairman and chief executive W.J. Sanders III admits that his company's engineering team was given the 386 code to speed the design process. AMD admits that another of its 486 clones contains Intel microcode and rightly does so under a previous technology-sharing agreement between the companies.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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