However, S3 had previously claimed that this was not the case. I'd guess that the evidence is just ambiguous enough to tie up the courts for several years, at which point P4 production will be winding down, and Intel and Via will come to a settlement. I'm not sure why Intel forces companies to jump through hoops before it allows them to produce chipsets for their chips. I think any company should be able to produce chipsets if they can successfully reverse engineer the bus protocols. Intel wants to make sure that their standard doesn't go lower.
More time needs to be spent by chipset manufacturers on testing their product.
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