ParTec, a privately owned company headquartered in Germany, was founded in 1999 and employs approximately 70 individuals, specializing in IT Services and IT Consulting. The company's core activities involve the development and manufacture of modular High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems and Quantum Computers (QC), along with accompanying system software. Its offering also includes consulting and support services across all areas related to the development, construction, and operation of these advanced systems.
ParTec AG and Microsoft Corp. resolved their patent infringement dispute on May 11, 2026, concerning cluster computing technology Microsoft uses in its Azure AI system. The companies notified the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on May 8 of a confidential settlement and requested a 30-day stay to file dismissal papers. ParTec had alleged that Microsoft's cloud-based platform infringed three of its patents related to cluster computing methods. This development follows a legal setback for ParTec earlier in the year when, on March 11, the European Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Munich dismissed a patent infringement case brought by ParTec AG and its licensing arm BF exaQC AG against NVIDIA Corp. The court ruled that NVIDIA's AI systems did not infringe ParTec's patent, although it affirmed the validity of ParTec's patent EP 3 743 812 B1, which safeguards technology crucial for AI supercomputers. ParTec announced its intention to appeal this decision, asserting that NVIDIA's latest chip designs do infringe its patent.
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