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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Apple sued for using the patented Auto Unlock feature on its Apple Watch

Apple is being sued for a convenient feature that it uses on its Apple Watch. The feature in question is the Auto Unlock feature that allows users with an Apple Watch to automatically unlock their iPhones and MacBooks.

Apple sued for alleged Patent infringement

SmartWatch  MobilesConcepts LLC has filed a lawsuit against the Cupertino giant, Apple (via Patently Apple). According to that company, Apple uses its patented feature on its Apple Watch. However, SmartWatch MobilesConcepts LLC is said to be a patent troll company that acquired this type of feature back in 2016.

The patent that was filed is titled “Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Enabling Wearable Device user Acess to Secured Electronic Systems,” and the patent number is 10,362,4880.

For the unversed, patent troll companies are firms that do not create anything new, rather they acquire patents as a legal weapon against other big companies to litigate them to earn money. Usually, they buy patents for cheap and then threaten or send legal notices to firms with similar or the same idea.

In the case of Apple, however, it may not matter much as Apple announced this Auto Unlock feature back in June 2016 at the WWDC event. Whereas SmartWatch MobilesConcepts LLC patented this feature with the United States Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTO) in August 2016, two months after Apple announced it. And it was later published in February 2017. By this time, the feature was widely used by many. Also, before Apple announced it, the company may have tested the feature several times.

Now it remains to be seen how the lawsuit goes and how Apple reacts to it. In the meantime, we would like you to know that this is not the first time Apple was sued for infringing patents. Earlier it was sued for features like Wi-Fi tech, WiLAN, and others. But the thing is, that Apple has won most of these cases, of course, Apple isn’t Apple for nothing right?

Samsung was also recently sued by a company for using a feature that tells how much battery is left on a Samsung phone. But we are yet to hear more about it.

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