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To: Joe NYC who wrote (69422)	1/29/2002 6:03:28 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"How much is AMD going to pay (cash / shares)" Since their intial round of funding was $15 million, although I don't know how much of the company Cadance has retained, I suspect it would be $100 million or less. "What's the current revenue of Alchemy" Not very much. They have something like 15 design wins so far. In the words of their CEO they are in a "pre-revenue" phase... "how competitive is the design in a relatively crowded MIPS / ARM field." Depends on what criteria you use. For the very extremely low-powered group, not very. For the extremely hiighly integrated, not very unless you are looking for 2 10/100 ethernet ports and PCI bus. For the extremely cheap, there are bunches cheaper. For the 1 watt and under 300-500MHz, the only competition is XScale. "Who is the keeper of the MIPS standard." MIPS. SGI spun them off several years ago. "Is it open, that is can anybody make a MIPS CPUs?" No. You need a license. "Are the source compatible?" Yes. Except for the processor specific stuff. Like the peripheral mix and whether or not you have floating point. "Is MIPS strictly 32bit?" No. There is a 64 bit version, and a 16 bit for small memory footprint. Sort of like ARMs Thumb instructions. "Are there licensing requirements / fees associated with the MIPS "standard"?" Yep, but it can't be a whole lot, given the price of some of the NEC MIPS processors.