A German court issued a decision banning the sale of some Intel processors

The patent is the reason!

A German court issued a decision banning the sale of some Intel processors due to a patent for voltage regulation technology, which belongs to the American company R2 Semiconductor. R2 previously lost a similar case in the US, and is now seeking to sue Intel in Britain.

This ban affects processors from the tenth to the twelfth generation, but the problem lies in devices manufactured by other companies, the first of which is HP and Dell, which still use these processors in their devices.

Intel commented on this decision as "disappointing", and the company will also need to provide R2 with sales data for these processors since March 2020, in order for R2 to measure the extent of the damage to them to complete the case.