Re: Why I think the T3 will be different from the J3
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Feb 11, 2012 12:30PM
I never said "we're done" and I never said "we can not win in court". Though I'm glad to see you disagree with those statements. I agree with your disagreement!
But I also disagree that "theres not that many chip making comapny". Unless you are using "chip" to mean only "PC CPU". But I didn't understand our patents to be limited to PC CPUs. Wasn't there a presentation a while back that TPL gave that said something like the BMW 7-series had 150+ chips in it? Look, I'll be the first to admit that my knowledge of the chip market and $3 still won't get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks, but I think there are A LOT of companies that make chips. And there are also a lot of OTHER companies that design their own (or have them designed for them). Look at Apple - they use custom chips for all of their iOS products. So, in my theory, Quanta runied our shot with the J3 only because of TIMING. We targeted the J3 BEFORE Quanta came out and - at that time - the J3 were the most lucrative target. But AFTER Quanta there were a lot of other, better targets (e.g. companies who weren't buying already licensed chips). It's just that we were stuck with the J3 and still had to finish that one out. Again, it's like the rug got yanked out from under us because Quanta was decided AFTER we sued the J3 but BEFORE that case ended. The T3 are different because they were STILL scared enough to sue us (again, assumption) EVEN AFTER Quanta was decided.
You are, however, totally correct that have no idea how they wrote the contract with Intel. One reasonable assumption could be that the contract was written to cover Intel's chips - in other words chips designed and sold as "off the shelf" products by Intel - but not chips that someone else designed and Intel just happened to use their fab lines to make. I would not agree that the Intel contract was written to take Qanta into account, because the Intel contract was written YEARS before Quanta was on the radar screen, so that would've been really darned impressive to take into account something that wasn't even known at that time.
Or you could subscribe to the theory that TPL just completely caved with the J3. I certainly can't say that's wrong, I just think my hypothetical makes more logical sense to my (admittedly dull) mind.