Analysis of Historical Patenting Behavior and Patent Characteristics of Computer Architecture Companies

Presents an analysis of historical patenting behavior and patent characteristics of computer architecture businesses. In the last article by this author, he analyzed the patents that were issued to seven leading computer architecture companies—IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, Dell/EMC,a Intel, Amazon, and Apple—in the first quarter of 2021, and highlighted one patent from each company that might be particularly interesting. In this article—which is Part I in a series of articles—the author expands on that work in several ways. First, in addition to these seven companies, this series of articles adds AMD, ARM, NVIDIA, NXP/Freescale,b and SiFive.c