AMD and Intel can afford to spend a large amounts of money on design because x64 chips are sold at high margins in high volume. If you are interested in the ec

AMD and Intel can afford to spend a large amounts of money on design because x64 chips are sold at high margins in high volume. If you are interested in the economics of the chip business, [0] is a great Usenet post by John Mashey[1]. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.arch/9TQ6f9auA-4/o1yM0QMYM70J https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.arch/9T... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey Edited to remove a duplicate footnote.