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To: Ali Chen who wrote (14280)	3/15/1997 9:24:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	of 186894

Ali, You write " any industry needs second sources, and again AMD was there to support this requirement Now Intel suies AMD for this. The story with 486 code is repeating.." INTEL made it quite clear in the late 80's/early 90's that they would be the sole source for their chips. They did not feel that appropriate quality in manufacturing would be attained unless they controlled the design and manufacturing of their own microprocessors. That is their perogative. Given this, it is really quite amazing that Cyrix has no chip making plants of its own. When AMD's new plant in Germany is done, they will only have three. Given the current state of Cyrix and AMD I'm glad INTEL doesn't have second sources. There are other sources of chips. People can buy Alpha chips or even Power PC chips or chips from HP and Sun if they are in the workstation market. These companies chose to go with their own chip design. People have no problem with them. INTEL has added value to the moniker MMX. The MMX logo is out in print and TV ads. Intel did this, Intel paid for this. They have a right to protect their investment. Why should they just allow AMD and Cyrix to walk in and say our chips are MMX, we are the same as INTEL? GM builds cars, Ford builds cars there are many other sources of cars. But GM would never be so bold as to build a car that looks like the Mustang and then call it a Mustang. They would be sued. This is not about anticompetition, it's not even about computer chips. It is something much more fundamental. The MMX name is about INTEL protecting its property rights, its trademark, its intellectual capital. Its the American way, and Andy Grove as an immigrant and citizen of this country realizes this better than most. Brian Malloy

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