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To: Kealoha who wrote (52747)4/11/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Kealoha - Re: "AMD, IBM, Intel and P6, Slot 1

When AMD has their products built at IBM, the rights to Intel patents, licensed to IBM in an IBM-Intel patent cross licensing agreement, get "laundered" and passed through to Intel.

This is a result of a court decision(s) handed down in the Cyrix vs. Intel law suit some years back. I think a similar court decision involving ULSI and Intel and HP (the licensed "foundry") also was part of this "new age" law where clone-makers become predators on the innovators.

However - AMD and Intel signed an agreement in 1995 that terminated all legal proceedings between the two up to that time. It has also been reported that as part of that agreement, AMD agreed NOT to use the upcoming P6 pin-outs/socket/interfaces on Intel's (at that time) pending new products - the Pentium Pro and Pentium II's.

Any direct agreement between AMD and Intel, if true as stated above, should take precedence over any patents that may be "laundered" by IBM through to AMD.

Interestlingly, the fact that this is being discussed so readily in the media press seems to indicate that AMD is heading down a dead-end road with the old Socket 7/Super Socket 7/and Slot A approaches.

AMD may not have enough clout to convince the industry to support it's (AMD's) CPUs in the future if Intel's Slot1/2 become the industry standard.

Paul
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