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EXHIBIT 10.26
AMD/Motorola Patent License Agreement
December 3, 1998 - Execution Document
PATENT LICENSE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is entered into by and between Motorola, Inc., a Delaware
corporation having an office at 1303 E. Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, Illinois
60196, (hereinafter called "MOTOROLA"), and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a
Delaware corporation having an office at One AMD Place, P.O. Box 3453,
Sunnyvale, California 94088-3453 (hereinafter called "AMD").
WHEREAS, MOTOROLA owns and has, or may have, rights in various patents issued,
and applications for patents pending, in various countries of the world as to
which AMD desires to acquire licenses as hereinafter provided, and
WHEREAS, AMD owns and has, or may have, rights in various patents issued, and
applications for patents pending, in various countries of the world as to which
MOTOROLA desires to acquire licenses as hereinafter provided, and
WHEREAS, AMD and MOTOROLA are engaged in continuing research, development and
engineering in regard to LICENSED PRODUCTS (as hereinafter defined) and have
programs for the patenting of inventions resulting therefrom,
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions
hereinafter set forth, it is agreed as follows:
Section 1. - DEFINITIONS
The capitalized terms used herein shall have the definitions assigned to them in
this Section 1, and shall include the singular as well as the plural.
1.1. SUBSIDIARY means a corporation, company, or other entity, fifty percent
(50%) or more of whose outstanding shares or securities (representing the right
to vote for the election of directors or other managing authority) are, now or
hereafter, owned or controlled, directly or indirectly by a party hereto, but
such corporation, company, or other entity shall be deemed to be a SUBSIDIARY
only so long as such ownership or control exists.
1.2. SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIAL means any material whose conductivity is
intermediate to that of metals and insulators at room temperature and whose
conductivity, over some temperature range, increases with increases in
temperature. Such material shall include but not be limited to refined products,
reaction products, reduced products, mixtures and compounds.
1.3. SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT means a device consisting primarily of one or more
active and/or passive circuit elements formed on, or in, a unitary body of
SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIAL for performing electrical or electronic functions, which
device may include a plurality of electrodes and/or means for contacting or
interconnecting such elements, and whether or not said body consists of a single
SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIAL or of a multiplicity of such materials, and whether or
not said body includes one or more layers or other regions (constituting
substantially less than the whole of said body) of a material or materials which
are
Confidential treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy
filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request.
Omissions are designated as *****. A complete version of this exhibit has been
filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K, March 29, 1999