> However, author completely glosses over the fact that AMD reverse-engineered Intel's product and released it's clone This isn't true. Intel sold AMD a licens

> However, author completely glosses over the fact that AMD reverse-engineered Intel's product and released it's clone This isn't true. Intel sold AMD a license and shared technical details. From wikipedia: "In February 1982, AMD signed a contract with Intel, becoming a licensed second-source manufacturer of 8086 and 8088 processors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD#IBM_PC_and_the_x86_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD#IBM_PC_and_the_x86_archite...