Yeah, right, like some not-even grad student is gonna come up with a Web-shooter all on his own? Pfft clearly CMU is in the right here.

In all seriousness though, I have to say I've never seen the "We idn;t infringe because their patent is technologically impossible to implement" defense before:

Marvell on Thursday repeated that its chips did not infringe the Carnegie Mellon patents, and that the methods described in the patents "cannot practically be built in silicon even using the most advanced techniques available today."


if true that would seem ot be a pretty good argument for non-infringement

how accurately hard disk- drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks.

And that is sad, it's as if Buggy Whip Manufacturers Inc lost a suit for superior whip technology in 1929...

That's because the Kree invented them, nonnerdmitter. (Marvell)

Maxor: Honestly platters are good for storing large amounts of data that isn't needed extremely often and will be the most cost effective way to hold that data for years to come. There is also something to be said for the number of write cycles on platters as well.

Oh I get it. People (particularly Amish) are still riding in buggies too. My old workplace is still using an  AS/400 because of "legacy" software and also "the cost that it would take to train people to use a new system". But I believe that we are for now nearing the end  where things move in computers. (The one exception would be fans or coolant.)

FTFA: "an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets"



What a analyst at Lazard Capital Markets might look like