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AFAIK Intel and AMD have cross-licensing deals for x86 and AMD64 which become invalid in case of acquisition, on the side that gets acquired. This means that yo
by Kubuxu 2y ago
AFAIK Intel and AMD have cross-licensing deals for x86 and AMD64 which become invalid in case of acquisition, on the side that gets acquired.
This means that you cannot acquire rights to manufacture x64 by acquiring either of them.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoThat feels so anti-competitive that I wonder if it would hold up in court.
- Wytwwww 2y agoLess than any of their major competitors like Qualcomm or even Nvidia buying Intel. In any case I find it hard to imagine that regulators in US, EU, UK, China etc. would ever approve this unless Intel was on the actual brink of bankruptcy. e.g. Nvidia wasn't even allowed to buy ARM when the markets they were competing in barely intersected.
- croes 2y agoThe patents expired April 2021
- Kubuxu 2y agoDon’t worry they wrote 50-500 more of them.
- ColonelPhantom 2y agoI believe most newer x86_64 patents are held by Intel (e.g. AVX). As such if Intel is taken over they would still hold them, right?