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To: Steve Porter who wrote (58805)	6/25/1998 9:43:00 PM
From: Harold S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

What do you mean when you say WDC won't be around much longer?? Are you trying to say they are going out of business???? I doubt that!! Or do you mean something else??

To: Steve Porter who wrote (58805)	6/26/1998 4:11:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

>>Intel stated NSM probably does have legal rights to the P6 bus, >>but the P6 bus is also covered by trade secrets and they hinted it >>isn't going to be easy for NSM to reverse engineer it. Dale, I wouldn't be too quick to buy that. Afterall the same engineers completely reverse engineered the MMX and x86 instruction sets not to mention devised their own 3d-extenstions (some of which were merged into 3d-now if I remember correctly). Cyrix has some of the smartest engineers in the indsutry... Steve, Right. I am always cautious about listening to the analysts or even CEO's. When it comes to science, math and engineering nobody has a monopoly, or as Gates says nobody owns the factory of ideas. And we agree NSM and AMD certainly do have smart engineers. But that is why i think Intel has to (and will) move to a more proprietary architecture. Not being an engineer myself, I really don't know precisely (in engineering terms) how they will do it. I am counting on Intel to use its vast marketing, manufacturing and engineering expertise to control the P6 bus and surrounding chips, video cards, motherboards etc. If Intel can't move to a proprietary system and enforce its intellectual property then Intel will suffer the same fate as the DRAM and DD makers. Dale