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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (8846)	11/6/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: Eric Howard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

OT - INTC Patrick, AMD has a cross-license for MMX, I do not believe they have a cross license for KNI. Also AMD has never had an issue with their road maps, but their execution is another story. If you really think AMD is going to be able to execute this time then I think it would be a safer bet to bet on them instead of betting against Intel. CPU development cycles take 2+ years, that is the lag time between when AMD decides they need KNI, if they have a license, and when it will show up in their processor. You are correct that many of the future PC CPU market battles will happen at the low end but workstation CPU battles will occur at the high end. Intel still has room to grow if it can take over the workstation CPU market. Once they finish destroying the RISC CPU vendors then I will agree with you that they are at their peak. Eric