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To: dale_laroy who wrote (37417)	4/26/2001 1:02:55 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"What it will come down to is whether the courts accept Intel's claim that AMD is limited to IA32 extensions and that their new extensions are IA64 whatever" Yup, and that puts AMD exactly back where they were in the 486 days. Except this time, Intel will be dragging them into court at every opportunity. And AMD will lose whatever market leader cachet they have and become Intel's Sancho Panza, again.

To: dale_laroy who wrote (37417)	4/26/2001 1:07:28 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> I think that part of the antitrust settlement with Intel gives AMD access to any extensions > that Intel makes to the x86 instruction set. Don't think it was the anti-trust thing. I think is was the suit over MMX. The case, if I recall less vaguely than I should, wasn't even over the instructions. It was over the right to use the name "MMX". I think. Well, even if that's not true, the long and short of it was that it was decided that you cannot patent or copyright instruction set extensions, though you can patent the implementation of it, and you can copyright the name. AMD got an agreement for the name (or maybe they inherited the agreement from earlier contracts with Intel) and they did their own implementation which did not step on any of Intel's patents (or if they did, they very quietly shuffled it around with xlicensing, though I don't believe they've done that recently. Apologies if I misunderstand the situation. :)     -JC