San Jose, Calif. – August 15, 2014 – Alliacense today announced that Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has purchased an Xputer™ Portfolio license from PACT XPP Technologies AG.
Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) is the leader in low power, small form factor, low cost, customizable FPGAs, CPLDs and Power Management devices. The agreement makes Lattice the second major licensee of PACT technology after Xilinx.
In 2012, PACT made headlines when a jury found Xilinx products infringed several Xputer Portfolio patents. The court also found Xilinx’s infringement was willful. Xilinx purchased a license to the portfolio in 2013.
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About the Xputer™ Portfolio
Since 1997, PACT XPP Technologies, of Munich, Germany, has forged key innovations representing more than 200 issued and pending patents in multi-core and reconfigurable computing. These innovations of visionary scientist Martin Andreas Vorbach, founder of PACT, have become common building blocks in today’s FPGA and multi-core microprocessor products. Read more information: Xputer Portfolio.
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