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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62796)	11/8/2001 6:05:24 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Wanna Re.AMD is not positioning Hypertransport as a standard, but rather as a licensable protocol that offers high bandwidths at low pin counts. <<<<<<<<< True, but if enough companies use HT, Ht will become the standard. Why would companies do that? Because it is better and free. There are no licensing fees, and AMD isn't using licensing to control the competition. So the competition has a major incentive to back HT; which is, HT isn't controlled by Intel, and cannot be used by Intel to control them.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62796)	11/8/2001 9:45:32 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"AMD is not positioning Hypertransport as a standard, but rather as a licensable protocol that offers high bandwidths at low pin counts." Semantics. There are many cases when a standard has started out as a proprietary protocol and then has become a de facto standard. Considering that in most cases, if not all, HT is licensed for no fee and no royalty, it stands a good chance of becoming a de facto standard if it solves problems. Heck, it could even become a real standard like IEEE-488 (just to name one) at some point if it gets submitted to a standards organization.