Gene, "When an Intel rep or Intel direct salesman goes into a company to sell a product, he has no need for an NDA.
I doubt that Intel reps even have or are authorized to execute NDAs. Do you really think that an Intel rep won't sell a PIII to your Mom and Pop Gizmo Inc. unless you sign an NDA?"
Intel does not sell to Mom & Pop shops directly.
However, Intel wants to sell their CPUs in large
quanities, so they must deal with "enabling"
technology, or Mainboard makers. To enable the
development of the supporting/enabling technologies,
Intel have to disclose many vague details and conditions
on how their product works if they want the board
to work. Therefore Intel executes tons of NDA on
many parts of their technology - FSB, HubLink, LPC,
FWH, ACPI, in order for all these parts to be
implemented with proper signal integrity, and
properly supported by board BIOS. If sensitive
problems are found with any interfaces including
RDRAM, they are communicated to those customers,
but certainly under heavy NDA, as you can imagine.
- Ali |
