Replies to post #33502 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[CombJelly]

"What patent? What feature?"

Dunno. AMD has made it clear on multiple occasions that HTT was readily available, but cHTT wasn't. cHTT as it stands probably isn't very useful to Intel, there probably are features that conflict with their model of how cache coherency is maintained. So are AMDs patents impossible to work around? Unless they have one or more of those absurdly general patents that the PTO issues way too often, probably not. It may take some work, but they could probably work around it.

[SemiconEng]

That is the root of my original question. Ring topology
is nothing new. But
Jerry said "...patent..."


http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1057/IDG010504amd_intel/
AMD and Intel renew cross-licensing agreement
ITworld.com 5/4/01
George Chidi, IDG News Service
Major U.S. computer microprocessor manufacturers and bitter rivals -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel Corp. --announced Friday that they had renewed their cross-license agreement.

The companies have signed four patent cross-license agreements since 1976, said John Greenagel, an AMD spokesman. "Anything that we patent they can use, and anything they patent we can use," he said.