Chip accord.The spat spat juvenile aquatic shellfish, especially oysters ready for settlement on solid surfaces—'spat fall'. between Taiwan Taiwan (tī`wän`), Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (2005 est. pop. 22,894,000), 13,885 sq mi (35,961 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean, separated from the mainland of S China by the 100-mi-wide (161-km) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. and China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.--with Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. in the middle--finally has reached an end. The two contract chipmakers reached a settlement in their nearly yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or patent dispute. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the deal, Semiconductor Manufacturing will pay Taiwan Semiconductor $175 million in the next six years. Taiwan Semiconductor said it would dismiss all legal complaints against Semiconductor Manufacturing in the U.S. and Taiwan. Both companies said they would license each other's patents through 2010. The suit centers on designs both companies are using to make chips under contract from Broadcom. Chip designers such as Broadcom that don't have their own plants almost always contract with more than one factory so they can meet big orders quickly. --Orange County Business Journal |
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