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Is there a time in the future that x86 related patents will expire?
by wincy 7y ago
Is there a time in the future that x86 related patents will expire?
- Dylan16807 7y agoSure! For actual x86, they already have. You can make a perfectly good 32-bit chip with SSE2. The patents on the core of x86_64 will expire in a couple years. Even if you can't have the more recent vector instructions, that's pretty good for a lot of use cases.
- nazgulnarsil 7y agoeach of those 4 entities has whole teams devoted to building up the warchest of patents + colluding on standards to keep the balls in the air indefinitely.