BaNosser, I have been wondering about this as well, ever since you first asked this question several months ago. I have spent the last few days researching NEC’s (funny I picked NEC in light of their announced agreement today) identified Chips and Chip Families that are proposed to be infringing on the ‘336 patent. I looked up every identified NEC chip and reviewed its datasheet (see below). In some cases, 1 chip can have up to 20 datasheets therefore thousands of pages to review, and I did not find one instance where any of the identified chips uses ARM technology. I plan on doing this for the remaining J2, but it takes some time because if you multiply the numbers of identified chips by the number of datasheets for each chip…..you get a migraine headache. LOL

SGE..Could this be why NEC settled? Could it be that even though they have an indemnification clause with ARM for their products that utilize ARM Technology (most likely ‘584), that they felt it in their best interest to settle because their exposure was higher because maybe the majority of their technology utilizes non ARM technology therefore they have no indemnification clause to protect them? Did I ask that right? Have a headache, need to take a break.

GLTAL

NEC Chip Part Number and Chip Part Family pulled from Pacer Doc filed on 08/14/2006 pages 6 & 7. TPL accused the following NEC Chips, and each member of each Chip Family, of infringing the asserted claims of the ‘336 Patent.

NEC Chip Part Number/Chip Family/NEC Data Sheet URL

uPD17717

4-Bit 17K Series (DTS)

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/1/UPD17717.shtml

uPD178078

8-Bit 178K Series (DTS)

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/1/UPD178078.shtml

uPD780058

8-Bit 78K0 Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD780058.shtml

uPD78F9328

8-Bit 179K Series (78KOS core)

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD78F9328.shtml

uPD789478

8-Bit 78KOS Series

 http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD789478.shtml

uPD703212

32-Bit V850

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD703212.shtml

uPD77111

Digital Signal Processor Devices

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD77111.shtml

uPD720130

USB Devices

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD720130.shtml

uPD750008

4-Bit 75XL Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/U/P/D/7/UPD750008.shtml

uPD789850A

8-Bit 78KOS Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=850A&producedby=&action=Search

uPD78F0537

8-Bit 78KO Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=0537&producedby=&action=Search

uPD784218AY

16-Bit 78K4 Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?text=uPD784218AY&action=Search

 uPD703003A

32-Bit V853 Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=UPD703003A&producedby=&action=Search

uPD70F3116

32-Bit V850 Series

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=uPD70F3116&action=Search

uPD30671 (Vr 7001)

Vr 64-Bit/32-Bit Microprocessors

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=UPD30&producedby=&action=Search

uPD30181A

Vr 64-Bit Microprocessors

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=UPD301&producedby=&action=Search

Melody LSI uPD9993

Melody LSI

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=UPD999&producedby=&action=Search

MPEG Encoder uPD61151

MPEG Encoders

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=UPD6115&producedby=&action=Search

Network Controller uPD98501

Network Controller Devices

http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/cgi-bin/helo.pl?field=Nume&type=C&text=UPD98&producedby=&action=Search