§kynet
Limp Gawd
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- Jun 11, 2003
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This is wrong. Intel's rights are in danger if they breach the agreement. The agreement is between the parties involved. It does not say, If and only AMD violates the agreement. It says if either party.There is no reason to stop Intel, since regardless of whether AMD violated the license terms or not, Intels rights to the IP are not in any danger (again, see the part I quoted from Arstechnica).
Intel licenses critical x64 IP from AMD, and yes if they violate the agreement and are found guilty, they lose the rights to use it. Just as AMD would lose the rights to use x86 if they are found guilty. It works both ways, equally.