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I really dislike Intel narketing practices. And their history on how they treat AMD. Intel is a reputable company, with strong products. Yet they sometimes act
by jve 8y ago
I really dislike Intel narketing practices. And their history on how they treat AMD. Intel is a reputable company, with strong products. Yet they sometimes act like kids.
- pjmlp 8y agoI think they already repented multiple times to ever had licensed x86 designs to other companies. Without AMD we would all be using some variation of Itanium.
- Koshkin 8y agoItanium had a great potential as the next-gen CPU arch. Now we're stuck with the heavily emulated x86.
- colejohnson66 8y agoIt even had an x86 emulator
- rbanffy 8y agoEarly on they had little choice. If they wanted to sell to the US government, they needed to allow other suppliers to compete.
- pjmlp 8y agoWere the other suppliers required to compete with x86 clones?
- rbanffy 8y agoThey had to compete against Intel. It's a quite sane policy: if you want to sell to me, make sure I'm not locked in with you.
- pjmlp 8y agoThey could compete with having better hardware instead of blank copies. I remember our government had other computers besides PCs and none of them had CPU clones. As far as I remember US government was a big consumer from DEC, Xerox and IBM hardware and they also did not have any CPU clones.
- rbanffy 8y agoThat didn't turn out well. Once the Wintel standard got established, other CPU architectures were relegated to roles outside the desktop. Desktop and all but the highest end and specialized niches of servers is x86-land. And Intel implemented the AMD64 instruction set for its own CPUs.
- pjmlp 8y agoTrue, but that is a complete different matter than having the Government requiring Intel to sponsor clones.