For PC gamers, AMD's Ryzen chips are the processors of choice, but they're also hot stuff for servers, workstations, and all kinds of portable devices. It's not just the power of the Zen architecture that makes them so good; it's the use of chiplets, 3D V-Cache, and how they're all connected that makes them the best CPUs around. However, a technology licensing firm is now claiming that AMD's designs have been achieved thanks to its patented ideas, and it's suing the chip giant for "its extensive and unauthorized use of [the firm's] semiconductor portfolio."
The company in question is Adeia, and it announced the lawsuits in a recent press release. Technology licensing isn't something new, of course, and it's been around for as long as chips have. The same is true of intellectual property (IP) lawsuits, but there are a few things that make this move more newsworthy than others.
