19960306 Merc news on NSP

19960318 Interim Agt. / Jungleib & Smith Promissory Notes
19960322 Seer offers Reality to Creative – wanted the clock to start on their option asap.
19960324 Letter Agreement
19960324 Amended & Restated Articles of Incorporation

Intel, Microsoft reveal new standards:

19960108 Microsoft announces WDM to kill NSP
19960115 Intel takes optional non-compete extension
19960115 Intel discloses MMX to Seer
19960122 Intel Re-Releases NSP code (without Native Audio)
19960124 Seer requests Intel approval for Creative deal

19960101 Creative losses: $30M in quarter
19960101 SEEERSYNTH > CREATIVE WAVESYNTH 1.0
19960103 LOI draft
19960111 LOI final / No shop
19960112 National Semiconductor
19960118 NAMM 96 Anaheim: showed SeerSynth & Reality prototype

19960125 Draft Technology License Agreement (TLA)
19960126 SJ TLA response
19960130 Seer Patent Report
19960131 Reality Biz Plan 2.0

19950801 Seer integrates Sondius technology

19950802 Public: Microsoft forces Intel to eat NSP

19950712 Intel says our NSP deal cancelled
Dave & I thought about what to do for a bit, then SEER SYSTEMS 2.0:

19950715 Seer starts new, 2nd-generation, engine-SeerSynth

Buys-out Satie and initializes Native Signal Processing (NSP) support.

The problem was that Intel had committed to sell some number of Satie units and pay us royalties accordingly. But now they needed to stop 486 support and shift to the Pentium. So they did what any totally class-act company would: paid us as if sales had been maximum.

They needed us for NSP, but I have no doubt they would have treated any dispensable company as responsibly and respectfully.

New Media, Mohan

PENTIUM TO GET NATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING

19940801 94 NSP Promise and Failure

19940801 Intel/IAL NSP business & port