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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (42322)11/27/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586336
 
Kevin - Re: " Another way to think about it if it still doesn't make sense: If AMD were making their procesors without MMX, would they pay any less in royalties to Intel, per processor, than they do now? "

The answer to this is YES.

They would pay ZERO royalties.

AMD never paid Intel any royalties based on "x86 instruction set licensing" prior to this agreement.

If you can find a document that refutes this, please post it.

Paul