There is now less need for a second license of Alpha microprocessor technology than there was at the time the Commission issued the Order. Compaq is no longer dependent on Intel for its supply of Alpha microprocessors. The licensing of Alpha microprocessor technology to Samsung appears to be proceeding successfully. The Commission also has information that, despite AMD's unwillingness to license Alpha technology, AMD is collaborating with Compaq and Samsung with respect to microprocessor technology in a manner that is likely to have procompetitive effects in markets for microprocessors. By the Commission, Commissioner Swindle concurring in the result only and Commissioner Leary recused.
Microprocessors are the silicon chips that process data in computers.
Petition at 14-16. Compaq does not claim that there are changed conditions of fact or law that require modification of the Order. Petition at 16. In other instances where the Commission has modified an order due to the inability of the respondent or the trustee to find a buyer or licensee, the Commission has found each time that the modification was in the public interest, rather than required by a changed condition of fact. Rite Aid Corp. , Dkt.