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Do those only apply to hardware implementations? Apple and Microsoft are both shipping x86_64 emulators that support SSE/AVX/AVX2

• trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  They both probably have licenses; Intel stated in 2017 they intended to require licenses for emulators: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/06/16/intel-threatens-microsoft-and-qualcomm-over-x86-emulation/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/06/16/intel... Presumably Apple and Mocrosoft both have counter-leverage of requiring app developers to ship native binaries at some point in the future.
  • nomel 1y ago
    Wait, you can patent an operation? Is it not considered an API? I assumed the Java case would meant you couldn't. I would think it would be limited to the hardware implementation, or maybe some specifics of the alg.
    • trenchpilgrim 1y ago
      Are you willing to fight Intel's lawyers about it, or are you gonna quietly pay them a fee and move on?
      • anthk 1y ago
        Then how does QEMU handle that? Or Bochs?
  • monocasa 1y ago
    They said that, but my understanding was that they were really trying to scare apple back on to x86-64. It didn't work, and it was pretty specious anyway.