Intel Wins Trial Over Chips, Dodging $1 Billion-Plus Blow (1)

Intel Corp. ducked getting hit with another multibillion-dollar damage award after a federal jury in Texas cleared it of claims it was infringing patents formerly owned by NXP Semiconductors NV on ways to speed up computers.

Intel doesn’t infringe two patents owned by closely held VLSI Technology LLC, according to the federal jury in Waco, Texas. The trial was held in the same courthouse where a different jury toldIntel to pay VLSI $2.18 billion over other patents last month.

This was the second of three trials in suits VLSI lodged against Intel over patents that until early 2019 were ...