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What is it that ensures licensing is required? Patents? Because patents on x86 technology predating amd64 should be expired by now... and without patent protect
by Beldin 5y ago
What is it that ensures licensing is required? Patents? Because patents on x86 technology predating amd64 should be expired by now... and without patent protection, another company would be allowed to reverse-engineer it, no?
- ramchip 5y agohttps://www.blopeur.com/2020/04/08/Intel-x86-patent-never-ending.html https://www.blopeur.com/2020/04/08/Intel-x86-patent-never-en... Tl;dr: many new patents have been created over the years, for instance SSE extensions, and those haven't expired.