INTEL的授权协议限制其它公司收购AMD

Edison

We were pointed to some rather interesting legal document that describes most of the parts of the latest AMD – Intel bus cross-license agreement, where Intel let AMD to use its bus technology.

It’s an awful long document but we will point out the most important things. The contract has been signed in early May 2001 by Craig Barret and Hector Ruiz at that time Chief Operating Officer himself.

The contract will expire on the January 1st 2011 and AMD has agreed to renegotiate the contract one year before the expiry. You can easily say that these talks will take place in 2010.

The contract strongly suggests that no company can buy AMD or to be more precise, no company could buy more than 50 percent of AMD.

So let’s hypothesize for a second here. Let’s say Nvidia or IBM or any other rumored company dares to buys AMD. By the current bus license agreement Intel could simply re-call the bus license leaving the acquired AMD worthless.

Intel could have some regulatory issues if they do something like that but we all know that courts would take years to settle this kind of case and by that time anyone who would acquire AMD could easily bankrupt.

The only option that AMD has at the moment is to sell some smaller parts of the fab and we are not sure that this would help the struggling chip maker. If they get things back together and make the decent clocked 45nm CPUs in late 2008 we don’t think AMD will have to sell its Fabs and selling them would just make AMD CPUs less price completive to Intel’s and this is the last thing that AMD can afford right now.

实际上还是可以实现被收购后授权依然不失，例如一家本身就具备Intel授权的厂商来收购AMD，例如IBM

jhj9

收购干吗？这么不厚道的公司还是倒掉好了

jackyking

虽然是个排他性限制合约

但是现在专利交集覆盖面越来越大...难保Intel不得不妥协

说起总线，Intel不也用着EXT64么...就是一笔糊涂账，一个需要重新建立的合约罢了

gz_easy

IBM可能只对AMD的fab感兴趣。

EveningRain

只有ibm有授权吗

Robin_Zhang

原帖由 Edison 于 2008-5-22 15:37 发表
We were pointed to some rather interesting legal document that describes most of the parts of the latest AMD – Intel bus cross-license agreement, where Intel let AMD to use its bus technology.

It’ ...

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