Apple fined $506 million for CPU patent violation

Apple must pay a $506 million fine for infringing a patent on processor technology from a US university. The company was found guilty in 2015. The fine has risen because Apple used the technology for another year.

Apple was found guilty of patent infringement by a US jury in 2015. Then a fine of 234 million dollars, converted 201 million euros, was imposed. Reuters reports that a US judge has more than doubled the fine by adding $272 million. This is because Apple continued to infringe on the patent until it expired in December 2016. The patent dates from 1998 and was applied for by the University of Wisconsin, which developed the technique described in the patent.

The patent relates to technology for a so-called ‘predictive circuit’ that makes processors more efficient by predicting which instructions to execute. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the branch of the American university that licenses its patents, filed a lawsuit in 2014 because Apple allegedly infringed the patent in the A7, A8 and A8X socs that the company used in its iPhones and iPhones. iPads.