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I don't see you complaining about ASML being the only way of getting photolithography machines, or TSMC being basically the only constructor at scale. Some ind
by ohgodplsno 5y ago
I don't see you complaining about ASML being the only way of getting photolithography machines, or TSMC being basically the only constructor at scale.
Some industries are awfully complex and getting into it requires insane amounts of work. x86 processor making is one of these. It's the same as making new browser engines/js JIT/etc. There is just so much work that catching up with the incumbents is almost impossible.
- ant6n 5y agoI'm not complaining about anything, just saying there are two companies that have licenses to make x86¹, so it's not true that anybody could implement a cpu with sse4 extensions. ¹Not sure what happened to that x86 license that Cyrix had.
- forty 5y agoVia technology is making x86 CPUs using Cyrix's licence (they purchased Cyrix 20 years ago)