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A great question .... all the 386 patents are out of date now right?
by Taniwha 8y ago
A great question .... all the 386 patents are out of date now right?
- chasil 8y agoThe wikipedia page says that AMD64 must be licensed from AMD. The market for a new 32-bit x86 clone would not be large. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "...x86-64 may require an additional license from AMD."
- Taniwha 8y agoYeah but a 386 and an x86-64 are quite different things ....
- Dylan16807 8y agoThat changes in a couple years though.
- monocasa 8y agoThey are. We're pretty close to Pentium Pro in terms of patent expiration.
- makapuf 8y agoDo you know of any worthwhile patent as in general enough to be reused in a different chip but advanced enough to be a current blocker and not replaced by another technique or is it just to protect i686 proprietary elements ?
- monocasa 8y agoKnowing about patents like that opens you to triple damages for "willful infringement".
- userbinator 8y ago486 too, and possibly the Pentium (P5) the last time I checked.