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Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sincerest-form dept.

icypyr0 writes "Tom Halfhill, an analyst for In-Stat/MDR claims that due to similiarities in the instruction sets of AMD64 chips and the new 64-bit extensions for Intel Xeons, it is clear that Intel reverse-engineered the AMD64. However, due to the fact that the new Xeon is not an exact copy of the AMD64's microarchitecture, Intel has not broken the law. This very tactic has actually been used by firms such as AMD in the past to catch up to Intel."

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  1. Correct Use of :"All But..." by tealover · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As the differences in the two architectures become more commonly known, Halfhill said that he believed a single version of a software program could be written to support both architectures, by avoiding all but the instructions used by both processor families

    Why can't Slashdot editors learn how to...well, edit ?

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    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to