If they only brought GPUs to market using hot lots, their stock would have been depleted many times over after sending out a couple of samples to magazines.
Hot lots and risk lots are entirely different things...
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If they only brought GPUs to market using hot lots, their stock would have been depleted many times over after sending out a couple of samples to magazines.
Hot lots and risk lots are entirely different things...
Due note that ATI and Intel had an cross-license patent agreement as well.
a) AMD bought much more than patents when they bought ATi.
b) AMD used to pay some amount of per x86 chip royalties to Intel. With the latest agreement that is no longer the case.
c) Some amount of money now is better than the chance of risk associated with a long drawn out trial.
d) Only EU has levied any substantial fines against Intel so far and Intel is pursuing that case in court.
I'd say very good settlement for AMD. Their CPU execution is another matter however.
Whoops, misspoke. Thanks for the correction.
itsmydamnation
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a). i know that but you can buy a lot of smart peope for 5 billion USD
b). never heard of this, link? given the fact the cross licence agreement is confedential i wouldn't expect this kind of information to be made public
c). not really see rambus
d). true, but intel are like running 3 and 0? korea japan and the EU.
There CPU execuition has been fine, deneb, thurban, instanbule, magny cours haven't had any issues. What was lacking was direction and a way foward. bobcat seems to be fine same with bulldozer, the only issue they have had is llano and that for all we know could be more GPU then CPU.
Patent Cross License Agreement - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp.(Jan 01, 2001)
INTEL & AMD CONFIDENTIAL
IN CONSIDERATION OF THE MUTUAL COVENANTS AND PROMISES CONTAINED HEREIN,
THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
4. ROYALTY PAYMENTS BY AMD
4.1. AMD agrees to pay INTEL a royalty on the Net Revenue from sales and
other dispositions of Royalty-Bearing Units as a percentage of such
Net Revenue according to the following schedule:
...
4.3. Within ***** (*****) days of the end of each calendar quarter, AMD
shall pay the full amount of royalties due with respect to such
quarter to Intel by wire transfer for the account of Intel to *****,
or such other account as Intel may indicate from time to time. Along
with each such payment, AMD shall deliver to Intel a detailed
written royalty statement, in a form reasonably acceptable to Intel,
which shows the sum of the ***** each allowed deduction applied by
AMD to arrive at the ***** sold or otherwise disposed of, the
royalty rate in effect, and the total royalty due to Intel. All
royalty notices and reports shall be delivered to Intel at the
following address, until such address is changed by notice from
Intel:
...
4.4. All payments shall be made free and clear without deduction for any
and all present and future taxes imposed by any taxing authority.
LINK
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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Different stuff I presume. The article says they've been trying to settle for a while, and not been getting anywhere, so Rambus have pulled out the lawyers and done the usual thing of trying to get imports banned.
IIRC, that was about the gddr controllers in gpu's.
Seems like Rambus is going after anyone who dares to manufacture any kind of PHYs.
aaronspink
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I'm surprised that no one has posted about the humor of this latest round. Its akin to hand loading the bullets, putting them into the gun, and then handing it to the person who is going to kill you.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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...Yeah, that sounds like nVidia. That's classic nVidia, in fact.
._. Why do they always do stupid shit like this?
Richthofen
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Don't know whether it is Nvidia or not. But why shouldn't they? All Nvidia has to take care about is Nvidia and its employees and shareholders but definately not Rambus.
Because this is the kind of thing that would backfire horribly.
Care to explain the metaphor?
Instead of delay?
aaronspink
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Always interesting to be sued by your own patents.
Seems like this Rambus patent saga involves more shenanigans than I am aware of.
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