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Even if they do want to get into chip design (low power chips -- the area where PA semi excelled) they may expose themselves to patent suits if they directly co
by nimrody 17y ago
Even if they do want to get into chip design (low power chips -- the area where PA semi excelled) they may expose themselves to patent suits if they directly compete with Apple in the handheld market.
Not saying they cannot avoid it, but in that case they loose some of the expertise of these guys.
- hga 17y agoWhy would a patent lawsuit directly affect these guys? It would be between the Apple and Google corporations, and absent an impossible temporary injunction (you can only get those by assuming the facts all fall in favor of the other side) while it was being litigated they and Google could continue their work. As it is, Apple has already shown its reluctance to sue Google WRT to Android by suing HTC; I suspect Google holds one or more patents that Apple wouldn't like to get enforced against it.