VLSI Technology, which was bought by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP) in 1999 for $1 billion, has successfully sued Intel for patent infringement in a court in Waco, Texas and been awarded $2.18 billion damages. The penalty for the infringement of one patent was assessed at $1.5 billion and the other was assessed at $675 million. ...

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