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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (87939)	9/7/1999 4:47:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Bill, Re: Why did Intel give this to AMD(286), no quid pro quo? It sounds as if they wanted to exit the 286 and made a deal with AMD? Anyone has the background about this ? I remembered it was because Intel was a relatively small company during that time and in order to make IBM comfortable of using Intel's CPU, Intel need to have a second source to ensure the supply. Gary

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (87939)	9/7/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Elmer, Why did Intel give this to AMD(286), no quid pro quo? It sounds as if they wanted to exit the 286 and made a deal with AMD?" Intel and AMD had a technology exchange and second sourcing agreement. The problem was that after a few years it became clear that AMD was getting highly profitable products from Intel but nothing of value was going the other way. To make a long story short, Intel got tired of giving away it's designs to a partner who turned around and undercut Intel's prices with Intel's own designs. Who among us would continue such a deal? This is the sourcs of the bad blood between the 2 companies. Jerry to this day feels betrayed, that he was entitled to copy Intel's products because he was there in the early days helping Intel get off the ground by establishing the x86 architecture and providing the then necessary second source. Therefore he should be part of the great success. Intel's view is (I believe) that he was just a deadbeat who got rich off of someone elses efforts. Today, AMD is happily losing money year after year with their own inhouse designs and do not violate any of Intel's patents or copyrights, AFAIK. EP