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To: Mani1 who wrote (78221)	11/2/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1571929

Mani - <LOL PB, you sure took exception to my statement that he was.> Yes, I did. <I apologize and stand corrected, "lying" was not the proper term.> Thank you, and accepted. PB

To: Mani1 who wrote (78221)	11/2/1999 2:53:00 AM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1571929

Mani, I haven't seen this tidbit posted here. Intel's lawsuit against Via - it's getting very interesting day by day. These turn of events may come to benefit AMD in one form or the other. FIC seems not very thrilled with Intel expanding the lawsuit to include FIC, and contemplating of counter-suing Intel. Hope they'd see the other objectives of Intel behind the lawsuit against Via and counter them too. From aceshardware.com ______________________ VIA to Intel: No Checkmate Just Yet KH Yeap Monday, November 01, 1999 (10:44 PM Pacific Standard Time) Interesting news bit from Ctech Taiwan : VIA may have a counter-offensive against Intel's latest round of lawsuit after all. Remember VIA has already tapped NSM's cross-licensing with Intel and producing APPP-133A under the umbrella of NSM? Well, looks like VIA has another resource to tap: S3. According to the Ctech report, S3 CEO Ken Potashner has alread arrived in Taiwan for a close talk with VIA's president about the co-operation between S3 and VIA, with particular focus on Promedia-II integrated chipset. Now comes the interesting part: S3 and VIA may spin off a new company to market the integrated chipset, which will be "techinically" owned by S3. Since S3 has a cross-licensing with Intel, where S3 obtained the right to Intel's bus technologies for the next 10 years in exchange for supplying Intel with AGP4X technology, this new integrated chipset will be techinically immuned from any Intel lawsuit. And VIA will not have to pay any royalty to Intel for that. In a related Ctech report , FIC has expressed its dissatisfaction against Intel's latest act of expanding the lawsuit against VIA to include FIC. FIC is reported as saying that Intel's lawsuit is "unjust and unfounded" because they are not the only company that makes motherboards based on VIA's chipset. Perhaps FIC has forgotten that they are so far the only company that officially sells and supports a K7 motherboard? ;). In any case, FIC is allegedly considering a counter-suit against Intel aceshardware.com ______________________ Regards, Goutama