Chip firms Intel and AMD have found themselves in the company of seven other semiconductor giants and are being sued by a Georgia company for allegedly infringing a patent.

The other defendants in the case, filed at the end of last week in a district court in Atlanta are Broadcom, Freescale, Infineon, IBM, ST Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments,

Optimum Processing Solutions LLC claims that the companies have breached a US patent, 5,115,497 - issued on the 19th of May 1992 and called Optically intraconnected computer employing dynamically reconfigurable holographic optical element.

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