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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (42323)	11/28/1998 1:01:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586391

Paul, that agreement was the result of a legal dispute that started long before the MMX instructions were reality. "On January 11, 1995, the Company and Intel reached an agreement to settle all previously outstanding legal disputes between the two companies." The agreement (and the legal dispute) had nothing to do with MMX! MMX DID NOT YET EXIST IN SILICON! The agreement now probably includes MMX because MMX is part of the x86 instruction set. KNI will also be inclued as part of the instruction set, which is why AMD will (again) pay Intel nothing to use KNI. It's true that before the agreement AMD paid Intel ZILCH. After the agreement AMD paid Intel certain royalties, of $X per processor, say. When AMD introduced the K6 incorporating MMX, they still paid the same $X per processor they were paying Intel for the K5. The incrmental per processor revenue that Intel derives from AMD for MMX is, therefore, NIL. The same will follow for KNI. Kevin