Credo and Molex Reach Settlement in Active Electrical Cable Patent Infringement Disputes
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A cross-license is a mutual agreement where two or more companies give each other permission to use certain patents, technologies, or intellectual property without paying ongoing fees. Like neighbors swapping keys to specific tools in their garages, it reduces the risk of costly lawsuits, lowers development costs, and can speed up new products; investors watch these deals because they can protect revenue, cut legal expenses, and change a company’s competitive edge and future growth prospects.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, has reached a cross-license and settlement agreement with Molex, LLC. Based on this agreement, the lawsuits will be promptly dismissed, bringing an end to all patent disputes between the two companies. The terms of the agreement remain confidential.
About Credo
Credo’s mission is to redefine high-speed connectivity by delivering breakthrough solutions that enable the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are committed to enabling faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient, and scalable solutions that support the ever-expanding demands of AI, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G, 800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
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