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Re: Do you all think AMD invested in TMTA rather than have TMTA sue them? I can't think of any other reason to invest 7M.

No, Kate. The cost of licensing TMTA's IP would have been cheaper than $7M.

I think AMD wants to collaborate on a project, but since TMTA is losing money hand over fist, they've asked AMD to pony up at least half the funding. $7M times 2 companies can pay for a $14M project. What would you like to choose as the annual cost of your average high level engineer? How about $140k, so it's a round number? In this case, they can have 100 people working on something for a year, 50 people working on something for 2 years, etc (ballpark).

AMD mentioned a project called Bobcat, which is supposed to get them into ultra low power devices:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20070608225159.html

I would speculate that AMD has added people to enable LR2 in the Bobcat project, so that they can compete with Intel's Silverthorne processor. It's just a wild ass guess, but who knows....