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To: Windsock who wrote (256497)	10/7/2008 5:59:54 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: This Agreement is the Patent License that currently applies and expires in 2010. It's not a license, it's a cross-license, and there's a big difference. Intel can choose to not renew, but then they'll have to go back to selling 32-bit CPUs (other than Itanium). Intel isn't the only company with patents, you know. It may be that AMD's best bet is to do a Rambus - stop selling CPUs and charge Intel $25 per CPU to license AMD64. Intel would just bump their prices back to the pre-Athlon days (+$100 per chip) and everybody would go home happy.