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Excerpted from InfoWorld's _At_Deadline_ column (November 12, 1992):

	In a move that could put more upward pressure on systems price
	increases, Intel Corp. is asserting its right to collect royalties of	
	between $15 and $25 for every system that uses an x86 clone processor.
	Cyrix Corp. last week asked a U.S. District Court, in Dallas, to put
	a stop to the practice.

	Intel acknowledged that it has approached "a half dozen companies",
	explaining that it has a system-level patent that covers memory
	management in an x86 environment. Intel denied that the attempt to
	get royalties on that patent was an effort to keep manufacturers
	from using non-Intel processors, but it admitted that only those
	using clone chips would be affected. The proposed royalty rates
	would be approximately 20 percent of the cost of the clone processor
	and would be subject to change as pricing on the processors 
	fluctuated, a company representative said.

	Cyrix, which successfully argued in federal court this summer that
	it had a license from Intel to sell x86-compatible processors, asked
	a federal judge to issue a summary motion preventing Intel from 
	seeking royalties from manufacturers using the clone chips. Cyrix
	officials described Intel's efforts to enforce a system-level patent
	as a way of keeping major manufacturers from using Cyrix's processors.