Chips & Technologies Inc reports that the US District Court in San Jose denied Intel Corp’s request that it be barred from transferring its Super386 and SuperMath processor designs to others, including Texas Instruments Inc: the court said that Intel had not sufficiently shown a likelihood of success on the merits to be entitled to a temporary restraining order, and also allowed Texas Instruments to intervene on the basis of an agreement between the two under which Texas will manufacture the Super386 microprocessors and SuperMath co-processors – the patents Intel is asserting against Chips & Tech are covered by a patent cross-licence agreement Texas has with Intel; Chips & Tech also says that 27 customers will be showing Super386-based motherboards or systems at Germany’s CeBIT show in Hannover.
