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Intel, Digital Make Up (10/22/97)
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Meanwhile, in another courtroom, longtime chip rivals Intel and Digital are rumored to be settling their differences-- to the tune of $1.6 billion.
Happily, the settlement does not involve the sale of Digital's Alpha chip to Intel, as was widely reported a couple of weeks ago. Instead, Intel will pay Digital $1.6 billion in cash to license some of the technologies used in the Alpha architecture, which Intel will use in their Merced processors. (Actually, Intel will pay half in cash, and half in the form of discounts on Intel chips to Digital, who also builds PC's using Intel Pentium-family processors.)
Interestingly, Intel gets two important benefits for their hefty chunk of change. Firstly, their Merced processor won't be held up by a lengthy court battle. And secondly, the Federal Trade Commission will stay off its back for a while longer; if Intel had bought the Alpha, you can bet the FTC would be all over them for antitrust reasons, like... well, like the DoJ on Bill Gates.
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Other scenes from that episode: 108: Billy the Bully (10/22/97) Mmmm boy, all of the seedy details are coming out in the latest courtroom drama involving Microsoft vs. the U.S. Department of Justice. (We only wish that Judge Wapner hadn't retired.) While the trial isn't open to the public, CNN reports that the DoJ called some major PC manufacturers to the stand to testify as to the character of the defendant, when the fur started to fly. First up was a tearful Compaq, obviously shaken before the watchful eye of their oppressive OS pusher... 110: Newton, Schmewton (10/22/97) Just when it looked like the future of Newton and the MessagePad was secure, the bottom fell out of the dream. Or so reports thessaSOURCE and others. It's only been a couple of days from the rosiest point in Newton's recent history; on Monday, Apple announced the MessagePad 2100, thus alleviating much grief among the Newton faithful who were waiting for the MessagePad to get "Steved."... 111: Far-Flung Fame (10/22/97) Many thanx to Flung! the website, for making us Flung of the Day! Flung! is sort of a mixed-bag site, whose neatest feature is Flunging Around, which will "flung you to different sites each time you visit."...
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