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To: Steve Lee who wrote (46645)	7/6/2000 4:17:04 PM
From: sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Interestingly, Thomson is showing practically no institutional 'sell' interest today -- and a fair amount of buy interest. fwiw

To: Steve Lee who wrote (46645)	7/6/2000 4:29:14 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Steve: Intel has always allowed Via to make P3 chipsets, regardless of memory architecture, subject to royalties and licensing fees I don't know where you got your information but I was lead to believe that VIA was juts plain given a P6 chipset license to settle out of court a Deparment of Justice suit. In addition Acer Labs, ALI was given the same P6 chipset license. Intel assumed that VIA would stick to basic chipset designs that supported PC66 SDRAM. Intel filed suit to prevent them from supporting PC100 and PC133 memory before Intel had designed that type of memory on the desktop. If someone has better information on this matter where all specific details are confidential, I would be glad to know. It is going to be very interesting to see if RMBS has any legal rights to ask VIA for royalties on SDRAM/DDR memory interface with these P6 chipset. Who the hell owns rights to SDRAM memory controllers with P6 bus chipsets, only Intel or does RMBS claim IP on Intel's venerable BX chipset designs. This story gets more interesting and interesting by the day. john