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by digitalzombie 2719 days ago
No please.

I do not want a monopoly in x86.

Intel is very greedy in their cpu prices. Their consumer cpu never gave the option of ecc memory and have gimp certain things. AMD was more flexible. Having two company competing will be great for the consumers.
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coffekaesque 2719 days ago
If they could get away with it I think it would be worse than mobile games monetization

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-char...

https://i.imgur.com/FTrP0gy.jpg

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jandrese 2719 days ago
Hopefully the dismal failure of that scheme the first time around will discourage them from trying it again.
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zozbot123 2719 days ago
> I do not want a monopoly in x86.

Strictly speaking, x86-64 patents must be about to expire anyway - the first Intel EM64T implementation (which can be assumed to be fully compatible even with modern-day software--IIRC the original AMD64 ISA had some unfortunate quirks which make this less likely) is from 2004. So, it's only a matter of time until we see compatible x86-64 CPUs from other vendors.

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okl 2719 days ago
There are tons of patents regarding implementation details and instruction set extensions. I don't think you could sell Athlon 64 or Pentium D clones to anyone.
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zozbot123 2719 days ago
Not sure about the original Athlon 64, but Pentium D's can apparently run, e.g. Win10 for x86-64 and its associated software (barring ISA extensions, of course) - surely that's good enough for some users. Especially if you could reimplement the "clone" on a more recent physical node than an actual Pentium D.
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