Dutch chip-making specialist ASML rifles through pockets of rival XTAL: Nice IP. We'll be having that
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/07/asml_xtal_trade_secrets_final_judgment/
After a long and bloody struggle, Dutch chip-making kit vendor ASML surveys the battlefield: its enemies are dead, and all that's left are their assets.
The company will be taking over the IP portfolio of its bankrupt Silicon Valley competitor XTAL after being awarded $845m in a final judgment by the Santa Clara County Superior Court. The money is unrecoverable, but that doesn't seem to bother ASML – the firm said it will end up owning "most, if not all" of electrical design automation biz XTAL's intellectual property through the bankruptcy process.