altivec

[Matt Porter]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jason Haas wrote:

> Matt Porter wrote:
> 
> > Hrm, I wonder
> > what the licensing cost of OF is or would it be better to do an open
> > implementation of the standard...
> 
> I think it's about $0.5M.

That's in the neighborhood of the figure I've heard around Moto. when
asking some people who worked with OF in the past.  It's unclear what the
royalty structure is, but obviously that sum is too much money to turn a
profit on a low margin board.

--
Matt Porter
mmporter at home.com
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