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Weng Tianxiang
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Hi,
Do you know how aggressive the patent fighting between Xilinx and
Alters is going?
I give you some tastes here. But I have to make a statement first: I
don't have any internal personal relationships from neither companies
and all information about the patent fighting is derived from the
following patent I recently read:
Patent number: 7,394, 287, "Programmable Logic Device Having Complex
Logic Blocks with Improved Logic Cell Functionality" filed on May 21,
2007, by Altera.
Here is the patent website:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=5yyrAAAAEBAJ&dq=patent:7394287&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=0&as_miny_ap=&as_maxm_ap=0&as_maxy_ap=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=
The patent contexts are all about Xilinx circuitry, but it was filed
by Altera so that O5 and O6 must be in their current status: O5 and O6
must share 5 inputs, eliminating the chance O6 can be figured with the
6th input, an easy point to make for Xilinx. All inventions in the
patent are trivial in its ideas, but important for Xilinx architecture
to further improve its efficiency.
What does it mean?
It means Altera has occupied a strategic high point to prevent Xilinx
from further improving its Virtex V cell structure without avoiding
its patent violations. The working price paid by Altera is minimum and
its benifits to Altera in market competition are huge and tremendous.
In another words, it is not exaggeratory to say that Altera hit a
Superlotto in the market competition.
I think both companies, #1 and #2, would establish, or have already
established, a division to specially research main opponent's
technology and file aggressive patents to avoid its improvements in
the future.
It is right and normal for fighters in battlefield to use minimum of
force to get superiority in the market.
That is why I would like to say the patent fighting between Xilinx and
Altera is so aggressive that anyone having read the patent 7394287
would smell the powder of the fighting hanging in the air without any
internal messages leaked from both companied.
Weng
Do you know how aggressive the patent fighting between Xilinx and
Alters is going?
I give you some tastes here. But I have to make a statement first: I
don't have any internal personal relationships from neither companies
and all information about the patent fighting is derived from the
following patent I recently read:
Patent number: 7,394, 287, "Programmable Logic Device Having Complex
Logic Blocks with Improved Logic Cell Functionality" filed on May 21,
2007, by Altera.
Here is the patent website:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=5yyrAAAAEBAJ&dq=patent:7394287&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=0&as_miny_ap=&as_maxm_ap=0&as_maxy_ap=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=
The patent contexts are all about Xilinx circuitry, but it was filed
by Altera so that O5 and O6 must be in their current status: O5 and O6
must share 5 inputs, eliminating the chance O6 can be figured with the
6th input, an easy point to make for Xilinx. All inventions in the
patent are trivial in its ideas, but important for Xilinx architecture
to further improve its efficiency.
What does it mean?
It means Altera has occupied a strategic high point to prevent Xilinx
from further improving its Virtex V cell structure without avoiding
its patent violations. The working price paid by Altera is minimum and
its benifits to Altera in market competition are huge and tremendous.
In another words, it is not exaggeratory to say that Altera hit a
Superlotto in the market competition.
I think both companies, #1 and #2, would establish, or have already
established, a division to specially research main opponent's
technology and file aggressive patents to avoid its improvements in
the future.
It is right and normal for fighters in battlefield to use minimum of
force to get superiority in the market.
That is why I would like to say the patent fighting between Xilinx and
Altera is so aggressive that anyone having read the patent 7394287
would smell the powder of the fighting hanging in the air without any
internal messages leaked from both companied.
Weng