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To: Joe NYC who wrote (28447)	2/14/2001 12:23:54 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Joe: As far as SSE(2), I am not sure it is patentable. I seem to recall that an instruction set cannot be patented, only implementation (correct me if I am wrong), and I am pretty sure AMD will implement it differently. Besides, I think AMD has a perpetual license for x86 instructions Correct, instruction sets are not patentable. Intel found that out with MMX. The question remains how easy it will be to implement SSE2 without violating any Intel IP. People more knowledgeable than I have raised concerns over this, in any event. P.S. Any "perpetual license for x86 instructions" would not cover MMX, SSE and SSE2. -fyo