Pittsburgh, USA, December 2012: The Californian chip-manufacturer MARVELL has to pay 1.17 billion dollars damages to the Carnegie-Mellon-University. The suit has been based on two patents and could be tripled in case of willful infringement. The two patents from the years 2001 and 2002 are directed to the noise filtering during the reading of hard disc drives. These damages are very essential for MARVELL generating an annual turnover of less than 4 billion dollars.