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Intel, Synopsys set for trademark battle
Intel has renamed its discrete graphics processor line as Arc, a brand registered by Synopsys for its embedded processor technology
www.eenewseurope.com, Aug. 17, 2021 –
Intel has appeared to register the name Arc as a trademark for its discrete graphics chip, putting it on a collision course with Synopsys which owns the registered trademark.
The ARC processor started life as the Argonaut RISC Core developed in the UK by ARC International. The company was acquired by Virage Logic in 2009 and Virage was bought by Synopsys in 2010 and the ARC core is the heart of a line of embedded configurable processor IP blocks.
Intel's Arc brand will cover hardware, software and services, and will span multiple hardware generations from the desktop to the datacentre and supercomputer, says Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager of Client Graphics Products and Solutions.
However the use of the word for a graphics processor is likely to be too close to a CPU.
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