[GartzenDeHaes]

> they wouldn’t have to worry about competing CPU designs, at least not for a very long time.

US Government sales require two vendors, which I think is why AMD had x86 licenses in the first place.

[colejohnson66]

IBM*. They approached Intel for the 8088 for the 5150, but said "We want a second source". So Intel reeled in AMD. Second sourcing at the time was pretty common.