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As Intel needs theirs!
by Grazester 6y ago
As Intel needs theirs!
- pjmlp 6y agoWithout AMD's access to Intel patents we would all be using Itaniums by now, and I doubt AMD can manage to ever drive Intel to the ground.
- formerly_proven 6y agoFor all we know Itanium was never meant to trickle down.
- pjmlp 6y agoServers were where the money was to reboot a CPU linage.
- dragontamer 6y agoWithout Intel's access to AMD64-bit patents, Intel wouldn't have anything better than a 32-bit Pentium4. Intel and AMD have each other in a MAD (mutually assured destruction) patent hold. If either pulls either patent portfolio from each other, they both die dramatic deaths. Intel owns 32-bit x86 patents... while AMD owns the 64-bit patents. Modern x64 chips cannot function unless both parts are together.
- pjmlp 6y agoAMD64 would never happen without Intel licenses, so Intel wouldn't never need to worry to access to something that legally could never happen. So how are those AVX instructions support going on AMDs?
- dragontamer 6y agoI'd assume the RAX register is more imporant, and in more widespread use than the YMM0 register.