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Microsoft proposed Intel anti-Java deal to cut out
And most interesting reading it makes too, because if there's one thing that's obviously agitating Mr Sanders in the twilight of his role as CEO of AMD, it's Intel's "skunkworks" - the so-called Yamhill project that uses X86-64 instructions.
The whole transcript of the AMD session is up on the Microsoft site. Judge Colleen K-K starts the proceedings by asking Jerry to speak in a "nice loud, clear voice, so we can hear you." There was a "fan in the room", apparently, that could cause problems.
The thread on SI shows that nine states lawyer Howard Gutman put it to Sanders that Bill Gates wanted Intel to help it by not supporting Java. He is alleged to have said to Intel that Microsoft would not support AMD as a "quid pro quo".
Sanders answered that he was aware of that proposal which never, however, came to be.
In the end, it seems, that Microsoft said that it would support AMD's Hammer X86-64 instruction set, but it didn't want Intel to steal a march with Yamhill.
Sanders said: "There was a time when Intel, my understanding of the software issue is a little soft, but there was an approach made, I believe, to have Intel not support the Java language and if Intel wouldn't support the Java language - I don't know what that means by not supporting the Java language - that Microsoft wouldn't support AMD's microprocessor requirements."
Gutman then asked Sanders whether, if that had happened, it would be a serious blow to $3.9 billion revenue of AMD, and the future of its 14,000 employees.
And Sanders said: "Yes, that would be devastating". He did say that it was in Microsoft's interest to support the AMD instruction set.
Here's the SI thread, and here's the full transcript of the proceeedings on the MS site. µ
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