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A couple things: 1) Intel is very heavily invested in x86, and they're likely to be very reluctant to change. 2) The Mill folks have patents, which might be h
by elihu 10y ago
A couple things:
1) Intel is very heavily invested in x86, and they're likely to be very reluctant to change.
2) The Mill folks have patents, which might be hard to work around.
3) If the Mill becomes successful, they're likely to either be bought out by one of Intel's behomoth competitors, like Samsung or Qualcomm, or perhaps even by Intel itself.
4) If Intel really likes their technology, they could license it from Mill Computing. It would be surprising for Mill to say no to a reasonable offer, considering that they don't have their own fabs and it's their business model is to license their designs to those that do.
- igodard 10y agoAll but #4. Our business model is to sell chips, not licenses. Why? Intel's quarterly dividend is bigger than ARM's annual revenue. Licensing is a backup plan.
- elihu 10y agoAh, thanks for the clarification.
- warkdarrior 10y agoYou forgot: 5) Intel really likes their technology, but they do not want to license it so they decide to implement tweaks around the Mill patents.
- igodard 10y agoA more likely strategy for a major (not Intel specifically) is to just use whatever they want without a license, and beat us to death with lawyers.