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I’ve heard that AMDs license gets voided if the company gets sold.

• gumby 7y ago
  I suppose that’s possible but quite hard to believe. That license dates back at least to the 286, perhaps And more likely to the 8086 (I’ve long since forgotten) and dates from a time when multi-source parts were not just very common but required for military and most commercial design-ins. So common that when a part didn’t have a second source it was noticeable. The second source agreement had to be transferable else it would defeat its own purpose (if the second source went out of business nobody would buy your part). Now of course I’ve never seen the intel/amd agreement so I’m just speculating as to what it says. But the weight of precedent/tradition makes a prohibition on transfer unlikely.