TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Texas Instruments Wins $51.8-Million Judgment: The Dallas-based company said it won the judgment against three California companies that a jury found infringed Texas Instruments Inc. patents. The U.S. District Court jury found Cypress Semiconductor Corp., VLSI Technology Inc. and LSI Logic Corp. had deliberately infringed the patents by making semiconductor devices with a plastic encapsulation process developed by Texas Instruments. The jury ordered Cypress to pay $17.8 million in damages, VLSI to pay $19.4 million and LSI to pay $14.6 million, Texas Instruments said, adding that the judge has the power to triple the damages because the violation was deliberate. The judge has not made any ruling on the damages, the company said.