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There would have been no Intel on IBM compatible PCs without x86 cross licensing, so you could make the point that AMD allowed Intel to thrive.
by tambourine_man 6y ago
There would have been no Intel on IBM compatible PCs without x86 cross licensing, so you could make the point that AMD allowed Intel to thrive.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhat? I was there on the early days, that just makes no sense. Cyrix, VIA and friends were ocean drops, hardly available outside US.
- klelatti 6y agoVery unlikely that IBM would have used the 8088 without a second source - so literally Intel needed firms like AMD.
- tambourine_man 6y agoNot unlikely, it was a condition.
- pjmlp 6y agoNope, it was a condition from government to buy PCs from IBM, most of their computers have always been single source.
- pjmlp 6y agoSo what were the second source from all major IBM computers throughout its history?
- klelatti 6y agoSorry, don't know what point you're making here. "However, IBM required that Intel find a second-source supplier because production had to be guaranteed and it was too risky to rely on a single company as the sole source of its chips." https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-architecture-a-legal-perspective https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-archit...