AMD 1998 Annual Report Download - page 118

AMD/Motorola Patent License Agreement
December 3, 1998 - Execution Document
transferable covenant not to assert ***** of MOTOROLA against AMD for the
manufacture, sale, or other disposal of such LICENSED PRODUCTS. *****
3.8. MOTOROLA hereby grants to AMD, for the lives of the MOTOROLA PATENTS, a
non-exclusive, world wide, non-transferable license under ***** of MOTOROLA,
without the right to sub-license, to have made LICENSED PRODUCTS designed solely
or jointly by or for AMD and to import, use, lease, sell, offer for sale, or
otherwise dispose of such LICENSED PRODUCTS. MOTOROLA hereby further grants to
AMD, for the lives of the MOTOROLA PATENTS, a world wide, non-exclusive,
non-transferable covenant not to assert ***** of MOTOROLA against AMD for having
such LICENSED PRODUCTS made. *****
3.9. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 3.5 - 3.8, in no event
shall the license or rights granted to AMD include the right to make, have made,
use, or sell
(i) any MICROPROCESSOR which is able to execute the object code of, or
which substantially utilizes the instruction set of, or which has a
programmer's model which is substantially compatible with the
programmer's model of, any MICROPROCESSOR designed by or for MOTOROLA
and sold by MOTOROLA, including but not limited to the products of the
MCFXXX, 65XX, M68XX, M68XXX, M1468XX, M68HCXX, M683XX, M88XXX,
DSP56XXX, or DSP96XXX families of MICROPROCESSORS, or MICROPROCESSORS
based on the POWER(TM), PowerPC(TM), ColdFire(TM), or MoCORE(TM)
architectures, or any new family of MICROPROCESSORS created by MOTOROLA
prior to the termination of this Agreement, or
(ii) any INPUT-OUTPUT ADAPTOR which has a register set that is
substantially compatible with the register set of any INPUT-OUTPUT
ADAPTOR sold by MOTOROLA and specifically designed by or for MOTOROLA
to interface with a MICROPROCESSOR designed by or for MOTOROLA and sold
by MOTOROLA, or
(iii) any product that incorporates such MICROPROCESSOR or INPUT-OUTPUT
ADAPTOR as elements of their structure.
However, AMD shall have the right, subject to all copyright and mask work rights
owned or controlled by MOTOROLA and subject to the above limitations of this
Section, to develop and manufacture original designs of products performing
substantially the same functions as any MOTOROLA MICROPROCESSOR or INPUT-OUTPUT
ADAPTOR.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 3.1 - 3.4, in no event
shall the license or rights granted to MOTOROLA include the right to make, have
made, use, or sell
(i) any MICROPROCESSOR having an internal architecture proprietary to
AMD and which is able to execute the object code of, or which
substantially utilizes the AMD
***** Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed separately
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been
requested with respect to the omitted portions.
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Source: ADVANCED MICRO DEVIC, 10-K, March 29, 1999