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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (42291)	11/27/1998 3:05:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572604

Re: "The x86 INSTRUCTIONS - which INCLUDE MMX - were part of the deal." So AMD pays a fixed (probably per processor) royalty for the x86 instructions. There's no mention of MMX in there and I bet if you look at AMD's 10Ks before MMX, the exact same language is in there. In other words, in a technical sense Intel receives royalties from AMD for MMX, but practically it adds up to no more money from AMD than if AMD sold non-MMX procesors. It's possible that AMD has to pay Intel something to use "MMX" in their advertising, but that's another thing entirely. Kevin