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  • nandnandnand - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link

    Mindfactory stats 'bout to be lit.
  • Samus - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link

    So they lost their patent dispute in the United States, and are trying to go after them in the EU through a shell company? Wow. The irony of two US-based companies duking it out in German court over a US-based patent that isn't used in any R2 products sold in the EU (or anywhere on Earth) is a pretty desperate money grab.
  • meacupla - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    Who is "R2 Semiconductor"? I can't even find a wikipedia page about them.
    And they claim to have been around for 15 years?

    I looked at their web page and they can't even show products with their... well whatever they produce, in them. All they have are some flash animated schematics that sound a lot like existing technology.
  • Samus - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    They don't appear to actually make 'anything.'
  • eastcoast_pete - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    They mainly seem to "make" lawsuits; another patent troll.
    It looks like they lost similar lawsuits here in the US. Some of these are filed in the hope that the company they are suing will settle for what is so nicely called the "nuisance value".
  • zamroni - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    Your search term was incomplete.
    Search for r2d2
  • GeoffreyA - Friday, February 9, 2024 - link

    That's a good one!
  • QChronoD - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    Their address points to a fairly small office building that I doubt could fit more than 50 cubicles in their half. Maybe they have a few engineers who do IC design, but they certainly don't seem to actually build anything.
  • QChronoD - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    Looks like they do churn out lots of patents about voltage regulators and such, but I'm not going to take the time to decipher patent-speak engineering. https://patents.justia.com/search?q=%22R2+Semicond...
  • TomWomack - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link

    It doesn't matter that they don't build anything - neither does Arm, neither does Synopsys, neither does Cadence. Developing better very specialised components, locking down the IP on them and then licensing them to everyone that needs those components for an annual price noticeably less than the total salary of the design team they'd have to hire to build better components is a perfectly reasonable place in the market for a company to be.

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