The Slovak company Tachyum, which works on the allegedly revolutionary universal processor Prodigy, has ended the legal dispute with the American company Cadence. On here she filed a lawsuit last year in Superior Court in Santa Clara, California, charging her with sabotage. The companies agreed on an out-of-court settlement.
“The matter is considered closed as all disputed matters have been resolved,” Tachyum said only, adding that the company would not disclose details of the settlement.
Tachyum originally signed a contract with Cadence as a supplier of certain technologies for the Prodigy processor, for example for PCI Express and Ethernet. In the lawsuit, which we wrote about on Lupa, however, the Slovaks stated that Cadence deliberately sabotaged the deliveries. The reason was said to be that the then CEO of Cadence was to act as an investor in Tachya’s competitors.
Founder and CEO of Tachya Radoslav Danilák recently told Lupa that similar disputes are common in semiconductor litigation. “There are only a few hardware investors. Information about you will very easily end up with those who have already invested in your competitors,” he said, among other things.
Instead of elements from Cadence, Tachyum integrated technologies from new suppliers in the form of Rambus and Alphawave. This was to delay the release of Prodigy.
According to the lawsuit, Cadence’s actions should have caused lost profits in the amount of $206 million. The search for new suppliers and the rapid integration of their technologies was then supposed to cost another 27 million dollars.
We recently wrote about the current events in Tachyu. The company wants to send the processor into production this year, and is currently looking for investors for the C series.
