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To: fyodor_ who wrote (51241)	8/15/2001 2:57:31 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Fyodor, Re: "Of course you accidentally forgot that VIA doesn't pay any licensing fee for the P4X266." If you caught the original conversation, I was speaking hypothetically about Intel offering VIA a license, and then VIA declining it. Peter_luc quoted Anand as claiming insider information concerning a $10-$20 license fee imposed by Intel. I argued that such a fee sounded ridiculous, given that it would be almost approaching VIA's original cost goals. Even if this caused VIA to raise their price to the same $40 level as the i845, Intel could never get away with imposing a 50% licensing fee, and that was my point. The bus cluster license may be worth, what? about 5-10% of the chipset? I can't imagine Intel imposing more than $2-3 on licensing fees, and even that would be Rambus-style high. wanna_bmw