On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder what happened to that microchip patent on microcontrollers
> with more bits than pins (am I remembering that correctly?). =A0It may
> have taken them this long to start licensing it to Atmel, or it took
> this long for Atmel to strongarm Microchip through other patent cross
> licensing...
>

Or maybe Microchip is afraid that more patents to be invalidated
in court.
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2009/03/04/20090304biz-microchip=
0304.html
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1964286/

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