I guess they could do that, and trust that customers will always be reasonable to not sue them when in those situtations that they wanted to avoid. Besides, it'

I guess they could do that, and trust that customers will always be reasonable to not sue them when in those situtations that they wanted to avoid. Besides, it's not 2009 anymore: if they want to maintain their arch on the market against ARM founders, they should probably help AMD out as much as possible (though I remember reading somewhere once that AMD considered including ARM cores in their APUs - or maybe it was just a journalist's speculation). > This sounds a lot more like Intel [...] Just a thought here: should Intel do things to avoid sounding like bad competitors, or to give their customers the best product they can offer? We're engineers, we should also know not to fall for appearances, shouldn't we? I know, I supported my own reasoning with the legal aspect of things, which sometimes is not very reasonable in what it must handle. There goes my original point.