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To: Paul Engel who wrote (57084)	5/4/1999 6:31:00 AM
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Paul and Kash - Intel vs. VIA lawsuit a "mistake", for now anyway. semibiznews.com Intel says suit against Taiwan's Via was mistake in chip-set dispute A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 6:30 p.m. EST/3:30 p.m., PST, 5/3/99 By Jack Robertson WASHINGTON --Intel Corp. today confirmed that it has dropped a lawsuit "filed by mistake" against PC logic chip-set supplier Via Technologies Inc. of Taiwan. An Intel spokesman said the two companies had been negotiating to resolve a dispute over Via Technologies' use of a license to build Slot 1 x86-compatible chip sets when an outside counsel filed the suit in error. The Intel spokesman said the law suit was being held in abeyance as a contingency, but should not have been filed last week. He declined to say whether the suit might be refiled in the future. Intel late last year licensed its Slot 1 technology to Via Technologies for chip set products, although details of the agreement have been kept confidential. Sources believed that when Via Technologies announced plans to make a Slot 1 chip set supporting PC133 synchronous SDRAM, Intel raised objections. Intel itself shuns any support for PC133 memory, reportedly to avoid creating any interim competitor to Direct Rambus DRAMs, which is supported by its own Camino chip-set solution. Via Technologies today did not respond to questions about Intel's suit.