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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenith Lee who wrote (32158)	4/24/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: Larry Loeb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583677

It's not a technology issue, it's a legal issue. DEC (Compaq) is licensing the Alpha designs for production purposes, but they continue to own the technology. There is no indication that AMD or Samsung (or Intel) will own the rights to the intellectual property. The merits of the case were not decided, but DEC achieved their objective of getting out of the chip production business (they could never fully utilize their fab with Alphas). DEC dropped their case, but did not necessarily license the future use of their patented technology, unless you've seen the actual settlement or a different report. I haven't. Larry