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To: gnuman who wrote (73608)	5/25/2001 10:57:54 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Gene, "When an Intel rep or Intel direct salesman goes into a company to sell a product, he has no need for an NDA. I doubt that Intel reps even have or are authorized to execute NDAs. Do you really think that an Intel rep won't sell a PIII to your Mom and Pop Gizmo Inc. unless you sign an NDA?" Intel does not sell to Mom & Pop shops directly. However, Intel wants to sell their CPUs in large quanities, so they must deal with "enabling" technology, or Mainboard makers. To enable the development of the supporting/enabling technologies, Intel have to disclose many vague details and conditions on how their product works if they want the board to work. Therefore Intel executes tons of NDA on many parts of their technology - FSB, HubLink, LPC, FWH, ACPI, in order for all these parts to be implemented with proper signal integrity, and properly supported by board BIOS. If sensitive problems are found with any interfaces including RDRAM, they are communicated to those customers, but certainly under heavy NDA, as you can imagine. - Ali

To: gnuman who wrote (73608)	5/25/2001 6:21:42 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi Gene Parrott; Re: "When an Intel rep or Intel direct salesman goes into a company to sell a product, he has no need for an NDA." Yeah, NDAs are required. Without an NDA, it would not be possible for my company to tell Intel what we are working on. That would mean that their sales people would be unable to tell us what products they have that match our (secret) needs. Without an NDA, it would not be possible for Intel to tell us about their next generation products. That would mean that their sales people wouldn't be able to check those (secret) products to see if they will meet our future (secret) needs. There is no way in hell that Intel is going to tell me about their future products without an NDA. No way. And without them telling me about it, they can't sell it to me. Don't think that just because a product is not yet announced that it isn't being sold, that's naive. -- Carl