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OPTi

January 01, 1970

For other uses, see Opti (disambiguation).

OPTi Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that primarily manufactured chipsets for personal computers. The company dissolved in 2001 and transferred its assets to the unaffiliated non-practicing entity OPTi Technologies (itself later renamed OPTi Inc.)

OPTi Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryFabless semiconductor
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989) in Milpitas, California, United States
DefunctSeptember 2001; 22 years ago (2001-09)
FateDissolved
SuccessorOPTi Technologies (2002–2020)
Key people
  • Kenny Liu, CEO (1989–1994)
  • Jerry Chang, CEO (1994-1998), Bernie Marren, CEO (1998–2001)
ProductsChipsets
Number of employees
235 (early 1990s, peak)

History edit

OPTi Inc. was formed in 1989 in Milpitas, California,[1] by former employees of Chips and Technologies. Cash-strapped on a "shoe-string [budget]",[2] among the company's first products was a trio of VLSI chipsets for i386SX- and i486-equipped AT motherboards. The first was a direct-mapped CPU cache for 386SX motherboards; the second was a burst-mode CPU cache for 486 motherboards;[3] and the third was a interleaved memory module for 486 motherboards. OPTi measured the latter two chipsets to reduce the component count on 486 motherboards clocked at 40 MHz (or 11 MIPS) to as few as 20.[4] In 1991, Chips and Technologies filed a patent infringement suit against OPTi, alleging unauthorized use of two of C&T's patents regarding semiconductor memory designs and particularly interleaved memory schemes, but a federal judge later ruled in OPTi's favor.[5][6]

In early 1992,[7] the company developed one of the first local bus designs for IBM PC compatibles. It soon found itself competing with VESA's implementation and the nascent PCI bus standard by Intel.[8] It survived into the Pentium era before OPTi submitted to Intel and began manufacturing PCI chipsets.[9][10] Later in 1992, they introduced a programmable writethrough–writeback cache chipset for the contemporary wave of upgradable motherboards, supporting up to 64 MB of RAM and processors by Intel, Cyrix, and AMD.[11]

OPTi had a peak workforce of 235 employees and US$164 million in annual sales in the early 1990s;[12] only three years after its inception, OPTi's revenue for fiscal year 1991 reached $100 million, under CEO Kenny Liu (b. 1954).[2][13] Although considered a small company,[14] OPTi's initial public offering in 1993 proved successful in the short term.[12] However, the ramping-up of Intel's chipset manufacturing in 1994 challenged OPTi's presence in their market. While Intel saw OPTi as its nearest competitor then, Intel accounted for 66 percent of all sales of Pentium-class chipsets, with OPTi at 10 percent and Taiwan-based SIS at 7 percent.[15] Liu stepped down from his role as CEO in 1994, remaining chairman of the board.[13]

 
OPTi Viper-M chipset soldered to a motherboard (part number 82C558M)
 
Close-up of die shot showing copyright notice for OPTi Viper chipset (part number 82C558E)

OPTi was reasonably more successful in the mobile chipset arena,[16][17] starting with i486-based chipsets for notebooks and other portable computers in 1994,[18] earning design wins from Toshiba, NEC, and Hewlett-Packard with their PCI-based Viper-N chipset from December 1994 to mid-1995.[19][20] OPTi's Viper-M chipset, their challenger to Intel's Triton chipset on the desktop, was notable for supporting Cyrix's then-unreleased 6x86 processor, as well as AMD's K5—both competitors to Intel's Pentium, which Viper-M also supported.[21] Contemporary chipsets from Intel only had support for the Pentium.[22] In September 1995, OPTi joined an alliance with semiconductor fabricator United Microelectronics Corporation and several other fabless companies including SIS to raise a 350–250 nm semiconductor plant within Hsinchu, Taiwan, in late 1995 or early 1996.[23]

OPTi dabbled with 2D graphics processing unit design with the TrueColor GUI Accelerator in August 1995.[24] Two years prior, the company had acquired MediaChips Inc., a designer of low-cost digital sound chips,[25] whose patents for a single-chip sound controller they used to design the OPTi 929 in 1994.[26][27] In 1997,[28] OPTi and Singapore-based TriTech Microelectronics were sued by Crystal Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Cirrus Logic, for alleged patent infringement of Crystal's mixed-signal technology used in the audio component of the Viper-M chipset,[29] which OPTi designed around being compatible with Intel's Native Signal Processing technology.[30] The courts ruled in favor of Crystal in late 1999 or early 2000, ordering TriTech and OPTi to pay their portion of a combined $20 million.[28]

Dissolution, sale, and litigation streak edit

OPTi found itself unable to compete against Intel's newfound dominance in the chipset market, with sales all but disappearing by late 1998. The company, which had moved to Palo Alto, California, appointed Bernie Marren as CEO that year.[12] Marren, who had been a board director since 1996,[2] steered the company away from the chipset business in 1999, in favor of developing microcontrollers for notebooks,[31] chiefly LCDs and USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) serial buses.[1] These products however barely broke even,[12] and in September 2001, OPTi's board of directors voted unanimously to dissolve the company, subject to approval in November 2001.[1] After a year of dormancy, the company sold its semiconductor business and assets to the unaffiliated company OPTi Technologies.[32] Marren soon took the reins of OPTi Technologies, and the company shortly after renamed themselves OPTi Inc.[12]

This incarnation of OPTi Inc. became known as a non-practicing entity—acting only as licensor for their patents and litigating against other semiconductor businesses for alleged infringement of their patents—under Marren's management.[31] Their litigation began shortly before the establishment of OPTi Technologies, with Intel in 2001. Intel settled out of court with OPTi that year for $13.5 million in exchange for the purchase of patents OPTi alleged that Intel had infringed. OPTi then launched a string of successful suits against Amtel, Broadcom, Renesas, Silicon Storage Technology, STMicroelectronics, Standard Microsystems Corporation, and VIA Technologies.[12] CNET characterized this as a "patent infringement litigation rampage".[2]

In early 2006,[33] OPTi filed the first of numerous patent infringement suits against Nvidia; by 2009 the company had won a total of $14.75 million in judgments and settlements against Nvidia, with further litigation by that point still in limbo.[12] Also in 2006, OPTi launched an infringement suit against AMD,[33] though this case stalled until February 2010.[12] The courts ruled in favor of OPTi in May 2010, and AMD agreed to pay $32 or $35 million to OPTi.[34]

In January 2007, OPTi launched a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Apple Inc. for the unauthorized use of OPTi's "predictive snooping of cache memory for master-initiated accesses" patent in Apple's Macintosh computers.[35] The courts in Texas ruled in favor of OPTi and ordered Apple to pay $21.7 million—$19 million in instances of patent misuse and $2.7 million in prejudgement interest (potential lost profits for OPTi due to their focus on the lawsuit).[36] Apple announced their intention to appeal in December 2009 but dropped this appeal a year later—on the day before a court was to hear it.[37]

OPTi (Technologies) Inc. in 2010 only staffed three people, including Marren.[34] The company again sued VIA Technologies in 2013 and won on judgement $2.1 million plus $1 million as prejudgement interest, but lost this on VIA's appeal. For the fiscal years ending in 2014 and 2015, the company reported no revenue from licensing and claimed operating losses. In 2018, the company was down to its last employee.[31] OPTi finally shuttered in September 2020.[38]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Graham, Jeanne (September 17, 2001). "Opti Opts to Close Its Doors". EBN (1280). CMP Media: 8 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ a b c d Tobak, Steve (August 23, 2008). . CNET. Red Ventures. Archived from the original on September 13, 2022.
  3. ^ Wirbel, Loring (December 25, 1989). "Cache catches on big". Electronic Engineering Times (570). UBM LLC: 20 – via Gale.
  4. ^ Copeland, Ron (November 13, 1989). "Opti 486 Chip Set Runs at 40 MHz". InfoWorld. 11 (46). IDG Publications: 3 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Staff writer (June 18, 1991). "Chips & Technologies Files Suit". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company: A5 – via ProQuest.
  6. ^ Staff writer (May 18, 1992). "Firm's Use of Memory Chip Upheld in Infringement Case". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company: A22 – via ProQuest.
  7. ^ Brownstein, Mark (February 10, 1992). "Intel hopes to create bus standard". InfoWorld. 14 (6). IDG Publications: 1, 8 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Glass, Brett (December 14, 1992). "PC users have choice of Opti, VL-Bus, and PCI local buses". InfoWorld. 14 (50). IDG Publications: 75 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Crothers, Brooke (March 14, 1994). "Opti, VLSI to support 3.3-volt Pentium chips". InfoWorld. 16 (11). IDG Publications: 33 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Crothers, Brooke (October 31, 1994). "Opti offering multivendor chip set". InfoWorld. 16 (44). IDG Publications: 56 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Quinlan, Tom (May 25, 1992). "Opti offers chip set for upgradable systems". InfoWorld. 14 (21). IDG Publications: 28 – via Google Books.
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  13. ^ a b Staff writer (March 1, 1994). "Opti Inc". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company: 1 – via ProQuest.
  14. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael (July 27, 1992). "Fast graphics bus sparks excitement, risk of confusion". Computerworld. XXVI (30). IDG Publications: 46 – via Google Books.
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  16. ^ Crothers, Brooke (January 9, 1995). "Opti moves to Pentium chip set for portables". InfoWorld. 17 (2). IDG Publications: 42 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael (May 29, 1995). "Notebooks plug into Pentium". Computerworld. 29 (22). IDG Publications: 12 – via ProQuest.
  18. ^ Crothers, Brooke (September 26, 1994). "Opti chip set targeted at 486 portables". InfoWorld. 16 (39). IDG Publications: 44 – via Google Books.
  19. ^ Crothers, Brooke (October 24, 1994). "New products to support PCI on notebooks". InfoWorld. 16 (43). IDG Publications: 6 – via Google Books.
  20. ^ Crothers, Brooke (January 9, 1995). "Opti moves to Pentium chip set for portables". InfoWorld. 17 (2). IDG Publications: 42 – via Google Books.
  21. ^ Crothers, Brooke (February 6, 1995). "Opti chip set to support Pentium, K5, and M1". InfoWorld. 17 (6). IDG Publications: 40 – via Google Books.
  22. ^ Staff writer (February 27, 1995). "Cyrix readies alpha of its M1 processor". InfoWorld. 17 (9). IDG Publications: 3 – via Google Books.
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  24. ^ Staff writer (August 21, 1995). "Pipeline: Shipping". InfoWorld. 17 (30). IDG Publications: 25 – via Google Books.
  25. ^ Moore, Mark (October 4, 1993). "Short takes". PC Week. 10 (39). Ziff-Davis: 147 – via Gale.
  26. ^ Staff writer (May 16, 1996). "New OPTi Chipset with AT&T DSP Bids Multimedia System Markets". Electronic News. 40 (2014). International Publishing Corporation: 42, 44 – via the Internet Archive.
  27. ^ Staff writer (October 17, 1994). "Opti Pushes Audio Migration". Electronic News. 40 (2014). International Publishing Corporation: 24 – via the Internet Archive.
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  31. ^ a b c Parr, Russell L. (2018). Intellectual Property: Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages. Wiley. p. 349. ISBN 9781119356233 – via Google Books.
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For other uses see Opti disambiguation OPTi Inc was a fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas California that primarily manufactured chipsets for personal computers The company dissolved in 2001 and transferred its assets to the unaffiliated non practicing entity OPTi Technologies itself later renamed OPTi Inc OPTi Inc Company typePublicIndustryFabless semiconductorFounded1989 35 years ago 1989 in Milpitas California United StatesDefunctSeptember 2001 22 years ago 2001 09 FateDissolvedSuccessorOPTi Technologies 2002 2020 Key peopleKenny Liu CEO 1989 1994 Jerry Chang CEO 1994 1998 Bernie Marren CEO 1998 2001 ProductsChipsetsNumber of employees235 early 1990s peak Contents 1 History 2 Dissolution sale and litigation streak 3 References 4 External linksHistory editOPTi Inc was formed in 1989 in Milpitas California 1 by former employees of Chips and Technologies Cash strapped on a shoe string budget 2 among the company s first products was a trio of VLSI chipsets for i386SX and i486 equipped AT motherboards The first was a direct mapped CPU cache for 386SX motherboards the second was a burst mode CPU cache for 486 motherboards 3 and the third was a interleaved memory module for 486 motherboards OPTi measured the latter two chipsets to reduce the component count on 486 motherboards clocked at 40 MHz or 11 MIPS to as few as 20 4 In 1991 Chips and Technologies filed a patent infringement suit against OPTi alleging unauthorized use of two of C amp T s patents regarding semiconductor memory designs and particularly interleaved memory schemes but a federal judge later ruled in OPTi s favor 5 6 In early 1992 7 the company developed one of the first local bus designs for IBM PC compatibles It soon found itself competing with VESA s implementation and the nascent PCI bus standard by Intel 8 It survived into the Pentium era before OPTi submitted to Intel and began manufacturing PCI chipsets 9 10 Later in 1992 they introduced a programmable writethrough writeback cache chipset for the contemporary wave of upgradable motherboards supporting up to 64 MB of RAM and processors by Intel Cyrix and AMD 11 OPTi had a peak workforce of 235 employees and US 164 million in annual sales in the early 1990s 12 only three years after its inception OPTi s revenue for fiscal year 1991 reached 100 million under CEO Kenny Liu b 1954 2 13 Although considered a small company 14 OPTi s initial public offering in 1993 proved successful in the short term 12 However the ramping up of Intel s chipset manufacturing in 1994 challenged OPTi s presence in their market While Intel saw OPTi as its nearest competitor then Intel accounted for 66 percent of all sales of Pentium class chipsets with OPTi at 10 percent and Taiwan based SIS at 7 percent 15 Liu stepped down from his role as CEO in 1994 remaining chairman of the board 13 nbsp OPTi Viper M chipset soldered to a motherboard part number 82C558M nbsp Close up of die shot showing copyright notice for OPTi Viper chipset part number 82C558E OPTi was reasonably more successful in the mobile chipset arena 16 17 starting with i486 based chipsets for notebooks and other portable computers in 1994 18 earning design wins from Toshiba NEC and Hewlett Packard with their PCI based Viper N chipset from December 1994 to mid 1995 19 20 OPTi s Viper M chipset their challenger to Intel s Triton chipset on the desktop was notable for supporting Cyrix s then unreleased 6x86 processor as well as AMD s K5 both competitors to Intel s Pentium which Viper M also supported 21 Contemporary chipsets from Intel only had support for the Pentium 22 In September 1995 OPTi joined an alliance with semiconductor fabricator United Microelectronics Corporation and several other fabless companies including SIS to raise a 350 250 nm semiconductor plant within Hsinchu Taiwan in late 1995 or early 1996 23 OPTi dabbled with 2D graphics processing unit design with the TrueColor GUI Accelerator in August 1995 24 Two years prior the company had acquired MediaChips Inc a designer of low cost digital sound chips 25 whose patents for a single chip sound controller they used to design the OPTi 929 in 1994 26 27 In 1997 28 OPTi and Singapore based TriTech Microelectronics were sued by Crystal Semiconductor a subsidiary of Cirrus Logic for alleged patent infringement of Crystal s mixed signal technology used in the audio component of the Viper M chipset 29 which OPTi designed around being compatible with Intel s Native Signal Processing technology 30 The courts ruled in favor of Crystal in late 1999 or early 2000 ordering TriTech and OPTi to pay their portion of a combined 20 million 28 Dissolution sale and litigation streak editOPTi found itself unable to compete against Intel s newfound dominance in the chipset market with sales all but disappearing by late 1998 The company which had moved to Palo Alto California appointed Bernie Marren as CEO that year 12 Marren who had been a board director since 1996 2 steered the company away from the chipset business in 1999 in favor of developing microcontrollers for notebooks 31 chiefly LCDs and USB and IEEE 1394 FireWire serial buses 1 These products however barely broke even 12 and in September 2001 OPTi s board of directors voted unanimously to dissolve the company subject to approval in November 2001 1 After a year of dormancy the company sold its semiconductor business and assets to the unaffiliated company OPTi Technologies 32 Marren soon took the reins of OPTi Technologies and the company shortly after renamed themselves OPTi Inc 12 This incarnation of OPTi Inc became known as a non practicing entity acting only as licensor for their patents and litigating against other semiconductor businesses for alleged infringement of their patents under Marren s management 31 Their litigation began shortly before the establishment of OPTi Technologies with Intel in 2001 Intel settled out of court with OPTi that year for 13 5 million in exchange for the purchase of patents OPTi alleged that Intel had infringed OPTi then launched a string of successful suits against Amtel Broadcom Renesas Silicon Storage Technology STMicroelectronics Standard Microsystems Corporation and VIA Technologies 12 CNET characterized this as a patent infringement litigation rampage 2 In early 2006 33 OPTi filed the first of numerous patent infringement suits against Nvidia by 2009 the company had won a total of 14 75 million in judgments and settlements against Nvidia with further litigation by that point still in limbo 12 Also in 2006 OPTi launched an infringement suit against AMD 33 though this case stalled until February 2010 12 The courts ruled in favor of OPTi in May 2010 and AMD agreed to pay 32 or 35 million to OPTi 34 In January 2007 OPTi launched a suit in the U S District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Apple Inc for the unauthorized use of OPTi s predictive snooping of cache memory for master initiated accesses patent in Apple s Macintosh computers 35 The courts in Texas ruled in favor of OPTi and ordered Apple to pay 21 7 million 19 million in instances of patent misuse and 2 7 million in prejudgement interest potential lost profits for OPTi due to their focus on the lawsuit 36 Apple announced their intention to appeal in December 2009 but dropped this appeal a year later on the day before a court was to hear it 37 OPTi Technologies Inc in 2010 only staffed three people including Marren 34 The company again sued VIA Technologies in 2013 and won on judgement 2 1 million plus 1 million as prejudgement interest but lost this on VIA s appeal For the fiscal years ending in 2014 and 2015 the company reported no revenue from licensing and claimed operating losses In 2018 the company was down to its last employee 31 OPTi finally shuttered in September 2020 38 References edit a b c Graham Jeanne September 17 2001 Opti Opts to Close Its Doors EBN 1280 CMP Media 8 via ProQuest a b c d Tobak Steve August 23 2008 Look out Silicon Valley OPTi s back with a vengeance CNET Red Ventures Archived from the original on September 13 2022 Wirbel Loring December 25 1989 Cache catches on big Electronic Engineering Times 570 UBM LLC 20 via Gale Copeland Ron November 13 1989 Opti 486 Chip Set Runs at 40 MHz InfoWorld 11 46 IDG Publications 3 via Google Books Staff writer June 18 1991 Chips amp Technologies Files Suit The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones amp Company A5 via ProQuest Staff writer May 18 1992 Firm s Use of Memory Chip Upheld in Infringement Case The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones amp Company A22 via ProQuest Brownstein Mark February 10 1992 Intel hopes to create bus standard InfoWorld 14 6 IDG Publications 1 8 via Google Books Glass Brett December 14 1992 PC users have choice of Opti VL Bus and PCI local buses InfoWorld 14 50 IDG Publications 75 via Google Books Crothers Brooke March 14 1994 Opti VLSI to support 3 3 volt Pentium chips InfoWorld 16 11 IDG Publications 33 via Google Books Crothers Brooke October 31 1994 Opti offering multivendor chip set InfoWorld 16 44 IDG Publications 56 via Google Books Quinlan Tom May 25 1992 Opti offers chip set for upgradable systems InfoWorld 14 21 IDG Publications 28 via Google Books a b c d e f g h Hoge Patrick December 13 2009 OPTi Inc CEO beat Intel and Apple Who s next San Francisco Business Times American City Business Journals Archived from the original on December 24 2009 a b Staff writer March 1 1994 Opti Inc The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones amp Company 1 via ProQuest Fitzgerald Michael July 27 1992 Fast graphics bus sparks excitement risk of confusion Computerworld XXVI 30 IDG Publications 46 via Google Books LaPedus Mark September 18 1995 Will OEMs See a Windfall from Chip set Supply Storm Electronic Buyers News CMP Publications T8 via ProQuest Crothers Brooke January 9 1995 Opti moves to Pentium chip set for portables InfoWorld 17 2 IDG Publications 42 via Google Books Fitzgerald Michael May 29 1995 Notebooks plug into Pentium Computerworld 29 22 IDG Publications 12 via ProQuest Crothers Brooke September 26 1994 Opti chip set targeted at 486 portables InfoWorld 16 39 IDG Publications 44 via Google Books Crothers Brooke October 24 1994 New products to support PCI on notebooks InfoWorld 16 43 IDG Publications 6 via Google Books Crothers Brooke January 9 1995 Opti moves to Pentium chip set for portables InfoWorld 17 2 IDG Publications 42 via Google Books Crothers Brooke February 6 1995 Opti chip set to support Pentium K5 and M1 InfoWorld 17 6 IDG Publications 40 via Google Books Staff writer February 27 1995 Cyrix readies alpha of its M1 processor InfoWorld 17 9 IDG Publications 3 via Google Books LaPedus Mark September 18 1995 UMC Forms New Foundry Joint Venture With U S Fabless Cos Electronic Buyers News CMP Publications 3 via ProQuest Staff writer August 21 1995 Pipeline Shipping InfoWorld 17 30 IDG Publications 25 via Google Books Moore Mark October 4 1993 Short takes PC Week 10 39 Ziff Davis 147 via Gale Staff writer May 16 1996 New OPTi Chipset with AT amp T DSP Bids Multimedia System Markets Electronic News 40 2014 International Publishing Corporation 42 44 via the Internet Archive Staff writer October 17 1994 Opti Pushes Audio Migration Electronic News 40 2014 International Publishing Corporation 24 via the Internet Archive a b Flood Mary January 19 2000 As Austin High Tech Firms Mature Patent Suits Boom The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones amp Company T1 via ProQuest Collett Stacy May 24 1999 Chip Maker Wins Big in Patent Infringement Suit Computerworld 33 21 IDG Publications 29 via Google Books Crothers Brooke March 27 1995 AMD Opti show integrated media chips InfoWorld 17 13 IDG Publications 8 via Google Books a b c Parr Russell L 2018 Intellectual Property Valuation Exploitation and Infringement Damages Wiley p 349 ISBN 9781119356233 via Google Books OPTi Reports Sale of Semiconductor Business Business Wire September 30 2002 Retrieved September 13 2022 a b Staff writer November 20 2006 Opti Charges AMD Infringed on Patents Computerworld 40 47 IDG Publications 12 via Google Books a b Hoge Patrick May 5 2010 OPTi gets 32M AMD settlement San Francisco Business Times American City Business Journals Archived from the original on August 10 2010 Mullins Robert January 18 2007 Opti sues Apple Network World IDG Communications Archived from the original on September 14 2022 Melanson Don December 8 2009 Apple ordered to pay damages in Opti patent case Apple appeals Engadget Yahoo Archived from the original on January 19 2021 Decker Susan December 7 2010 Apple Drops Appeal of 19 Million OPTi Patent Victory Bloomberg Businessweek Bloomberg L P Archived from the original on April 10 2015 OPTi Technologies Inc OpenCorporates Archived from the original on September 14 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to OPTi Inc Official website at the Wayback Machine archived November 13 1996 OPTi Inc company and products overview at DOS Days Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w 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