Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Sign Patent Cross License Agreement

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- Jan. 5, 1996 -- Advanced Micro Devices and Intel
Corporation today announced that they have signed a five-year patent
cross-license agreement. The companies had agreed to negotiate the license
as the result of a litigation settlement announced in January 1995.

The new agreement follows a patent cross-license arrangement between the
two companies that expired at the end of 1995. Effective January 1, 1996,
the new pact gives AMD and Intel the rights to use each others' patents
and certain copyrights, exclusive of microprocessor microcode copyrights.
AMD agreed in the January 1995 settlement agreement that it would not use
Intel microcode beyond the Intel486(TM) processor code.

The cross-license is royalty-bearing for products that use certain
technologies, though specific financial terms were not disclosed.

"Licensing is one way of ensuring others respect our intellectual
property," said Craig Barrett, Intel's chief operating officer. "It also
allows us to provide our shareholders with a continuing return on the
massive investments we make on their behalf."

"This agreement ensures that AMD has legal rights to all the enabling Intel
intellectual property necessary to continue providing our customers with
competitive products that are fully software-compatible with the Intel
instruction set," said W.J. Sanders III, chairman and chief executive
officer of AMD.

Focusing on the personal and networked computing and communications
markets, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., produces microprocessors and
related peripherals, flash memories, programmable logic devices, and
circuits for telecommunications and networking applications. Founded in
1969, AMD reported 1994 revenues of $2.1 billion. With headquarters in
Sunnyvale, California, AMD has sales offices worldwide and manufacturing
facilities in Sunnyvale; Austin, Texas; Bangkok, Thailand; Penang,
Malaysia; Singapore and Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of
personal computer, networking and communications products.
 
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