Intel Sued for Patent Infringement for Core 2 Duo CPUs

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) announced to have charged Intel Corporation with patent infringement of a University of Wisconsin-Madison invention that significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing. It would include all Core 2 Duo CPUs, the desktop, notebook and Xeon CPU models.
The foundation complaints that Intel Core 2 Duo micro-architecture is infringing WARF's United States Patent No. 5,781,752, entitled "Table Based Data Speculation Circuit for Parallel Processing Computer" and patented in 1998. As summarized by Michael Falk, WARF general counsel: "the technology significantly enhances opportunities for instruction level parallelism in modern processors, thereby increasing their execution speed."
The WARF claims to have approached Intel several times to find an agreement and to settle the conflict and offer legal licensing opportunities for the technology, however, following the lack of response from Intel, the Foundation decided to bring the case to the court.