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Full story.Nonetheless, technologies with Digital genes march on, including HyperTransport, a high-speed method of chip interconnection championed by AMD; a future version of Intel's Itanium family of processors; and low-power chips for cell phones and handhelds from both those companies.
Intel's hyperthreading, which involves breaking up an application for easier digestion by a computer's processors, derives in part from work on simultaneous multithreading performed by a team of researchers at the University of Washington and Digital, an Intel representative confirmed. In 1997, Intel licensed the patents and hired many of the employees who worked on the project as part of a massive legal settlement between the companies.
What else has been borrowed, re-invented and / or bought?