To the pompous BS artist: You obviously did not read or understand what I had previously stated. "The chief designers of the chip were Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff of Intel, and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom (later of ZiLOG, founded by Federico Faggin)." Busicom contracted a chip to be produced, and it was DESIGNED By Busicom employee Shima, Todd Hoff and the italian Federico Faggin. Intel outsources chip production too, to companies like TSMC, but the rights to the chip are owned by Intel.
You're delusional. Contact the IEEE and set them straight. ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Do you also think the sun revolves around the earth?
To the pompous BS artist: The IEEE does not mention any explicit innovation by Microsoft. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works. I am still waiting for the successful magic one product.
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement Patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented invention without permission from the patent holder. Permission may typically be granted in the form of a licence. The definition of patent infringement may vary by jurisdiction, but it typically includes using or selling the patented invention. In many countries, a use is required to be commercial (or to have a commercial purpose) to constitute patent infringement.[citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation Microsoft has also fought numerous legal battles against private companies. The most prominent ones are against: Alcatel-Lucent, which won US$1.52 billion in a lawsuit which alleged that Microsoft had infringed its patents on playback of audio files. This ruling was overturned in a higher court[31] Apple Inc. (known as Apple Computer, Inc. at the time), which accused Microsoft in the late 1980s of copying the "look and feel" of the graphical user interface of Apple's operating systems. The courts ruled in favor of Microsoft in 1994. Another suit by Apple accused Microsoft, along with Intel and the San Francisco Canyon Company, in 1995 of knowingly stealing several thousand lines of QuickTime source code in an effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.[32][33][34][35] After a threat to withdraw support for Office for Mac,[36][37] this lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1997. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape, and Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office and other software for the Mac for the next 5 years, purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, and made a quiet payoff estimated to be in the US$500 million-$2 billion range.[38][39][40][41] AOL, on behalf of its Netscape division. Netscape (as an independent company) also was involved in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust suit. Be Inc., which accused Microsoft of exclusionary and anticompetitive behavior intended to drive Be out of the market. Be even offered to license its Be Operating System (BeOS) for free to any PC vendors who would ship it pre-installed, but the vendors declined due to what Be believes were fears of pricing retaliation from Microsoft: by raising the price of Microsoft Windows for one particular PC vendor, Microsoft could price that vendor's PCs out of the market.[42] Bristol Technology Inc., which accused Microsoft illegally withheld Windows source code and used its dominant position with Windows to move into other markets[43][44][45]. A ruling later ordered Microsoft to pay $1 Million to Bristol Technologies[46]. Burst.com, which claims that Microsoft stole Burst's patented technology for delivering high speed streaming sound and video content on the internet. Also at issue in the case is a 35-week period of missing emails in the evidence Microsoft handed over to Burst which was discovered by Burst.com's lawyers. Burst accuses Microsoft of crafting a 30 day email deletion policy specifically to cover up illegal activity. Microsoft settled with the company for $60 million in exchange for an agreement to license some of the company's technologies.[47][48][49] Eolas and University of California, which accused Microsoft of using some of its software patents in their web browser, won $521 million in court.[50] Caldera, which accused Microsoft of having modified Windows 3.1 so that it would not run on DR DOS 6 although there was no technical reason for it not to work.[51] Some claim that Microsoft put encrypted code in five otherwise unrelated Microsoft programs in order to prevent the functioning of DR DOS in pre-releases (beta versions) of Windows 3.1.[52] Microsoft settled out-of-court for an undisclosed sum. Opera, which accused Microsoft of intentionally making its MSN service incompatible with the Opera browser on several occasions. Sendo, which accused Microsoft of terminating their partnership so it could steal Sendo's technology to use in Windows Smartphone 2002.[53] Spyglass, which licensed its browser to Microsoft in return for a percentage of each sale; Microsoft turned the browser into Internet Explorer and bundled it with Windows, giving it away to gain market share but effectively destroying any chance of Spyglass making money from the deal they had signed with Microsoft; Spyglass sued for deception and won a $8 million settlement.[54] Stac Electronics, which accused Microsoft of stealing its data compression code and using it in MS-DOS 6.[55] Microsoft eventually lost the subsequent lawsuit and was ordered by a federal court to pay roughly $120 million in compensation.[56] Sun Microsystems, which held Microsoft in violation of contract for including a modified version of Java in Microsoft Windows that provided Windows-specific extensions to Sun's Java language; Microsoft lost this decision in court and were forced to stop shipping their Windows-specific Java Virtual Machine. Microsoft eventually ceased to include any Java Virtual Machine in Windows, and Windows users who require a Java Virtual Machine need to download the software or otherwise acquire a copy from a source other than Microsoft. WordPerfect Many other smaller companies have filed patent abuse and predatory practice suits against Microsoft.
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: This is what you wrote before that. Notice you conveniently left "of Intel" out of it (which should have been after Ted Hoff's name). The intel chip was chiefly co-designed by the italian engineer Federico Faggin, ted Hoff and Masatoshi Shima of BUSICOM http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2501775#post2501775
To the pompous BS artist: Intel did not even make microprocessors until it was CONTRACTED by BUSICOM to produce a chip which was DESIGNED by Shima of Busicom, the italian Faggin and Ted Hoff. TSMC does not claim patents for products produced for Intel.
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: I know you can't face this but Intel invented the microprocessor. That's the bottom line. Busicom was only the customer. Some give TI credit for coming up with it simultaneously but both are American companies which makes you so envious you have to pretend it didn't happen. So cling to your delusions if it makes you feel better but that doesn't change reality
To the pompous BS artist: Again Intel did not even make microprocessors until it was CONTRACTED by BUSICOM to produce a chip which was DESIGNED by Shima of Busicom, the italian Faggin and Ted Hoff. Intel DID NOT make microprocessors until it was contracted by Busicom. Shima of Busicom CO-DESIGNED the chip. Again TSMC does not claim patents for products produced for Intel. The chip made by Intel was not a PURELY AMERICAN "INNOVATION". If Intel was never contracted, the chip would never have been made as it was CO-DESIGNED by Shima of BUSICOM. You are pretending that the chip is a purely American innovation, reality conflicts with your ignorance and biased predispositions.
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: That's not what I said but then again you have problems reading and writing English... You have no idea what would have happened. Why do you think Busicom went to Intel in the first place? Shima played a minor role BTW... Ted Hoff (an American) was the one whose ideas were the most important by far. Do your homework for once. Texas Instruments came up with the microprocessor at the same time anyway. It must suck to be so jaded and jealous that you have to post revisionist history on ET. Get a life, loser.
To the pompous BS artist: How many times am I going to repeat myself.. Again Intel did not even make microprocessors until it was CONTRACTED by BUSICOM to produce a chip which was DESIGNED by Shima of Busicom, the italian Faggin and Ted Hoff. Intel DID NOT make microprocessors until it was contracted by Busicom. Shima of Busicom CO-DESIGNED the chip. Again TSMC does not claim patents for products produced for Intel. The chip made by Intel was not a PURELY AMERICAN "INNOVATION". If Intel was never contracted, the chip WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE as it was CO-DESIGNED by Shima of BUSICOM. You are pretending that the chip is a purely American innovation, reality conflicts with your ignorance and biased predispositions. You are the one rewriting history and have lost your debate based on false pretenses making you the loser. YOU HAVE NO IDEA what would have happened had Intel not been contracted by Busicom, it could never have made a chip, BUT THE FACT of the matter is that it was made with Shima of Busicom and you are rationalizing that FACT.