Ka-pi96 said:
Ahh, but under point 8 'without the prior written consent of the other party'. Sounds to me that they could keep the licence as long as they agree it with Intel before the acquisition is finalised. Considering Intel would have something to lose if they rejected there is a chance they could. Besides, if this is a big part of AMD then Samsung may decide against buying them altogether if they can't work out the agreement with Intel before finalising it. |
What would Intel have to loose?
If you mean the control over their license, just consider 2 things:
1. Some years in court would pass before that happens, giving Intel a massive head start.
2. they would still hold control over extensions of the original code like MMX and the different SSE Versions. Since nearly all the programms are making very extensive use of them (to the point of not working without them in most cases), the chips wouldn't be fully compatible with modern Intel processors and programms written for them and would also be severly slowed down without all this additional Opcode.
So, I'd rather think Intel would not make a new contract with any other party even if AMD is out of the picture until their advantage is so big that it wouldn't make a point to do so anyway.
