Essential Linkage: AMD's packaging has a huge problem.
Packaging is probably the last thing that you'd think of when considering your next tech purchase, usually being ripped apart and thrown straight into the nearest bin.
AMD and a host of other companies have run into problems with theirs though; as patent infringement claims from Tessera Technologies mean that their packaging has come under some pretty serious scrutiny (not the first time they've been under the lawsuit hammer).
While we're not sure which part of the packaging is purportedly infringing, we do know that the International Trade Commission implemented a ban order on the 20th of May 2009.
They're temporarily off the hook for sixty days after the ban, but have to either appeal their ban to the US Federal District court or change their packaging completely - something very hard to achieve with so many products already on the shelves.
Fingers crossed that AMD and the other companies get out of this relatively unscathed - the last thing that AMD need is to lose even more money.
Head over to TweakTown to grab a little more info.
*Update*
Due to concerns raised by a reader, this is not about their cardboard box or anything along those lines; rather the ceramic packaging used in the processors themselves.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012