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Tim Cook has said it: We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make. So it would make no sense to trade Intel

• monocasa 6y ago
  > Tim Cook has said it: We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make. Tim Cook was talking about context nearly a decade old. > So it would make no sense to trade Intel's poor schedule and performance for AMD's uncertain future performance. x86 is just going to become more of a commodity as time goes on. And currently, Zen 2 is hands down the best perf/watt combo currently. > And aren't all x86 licensee prevented from keeping that license if they are bought? That was a the rumor, but centaur has already been bought and kept it's license, so at a minimum there there's some fine print to that clause. And my experience with B2B is that clauses like that are ultimately a product of the circumstances from when they're written. If circumstances change, those clauses can change. The most indelible ink is the most likely to have new semantics later.