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Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License
theraindog writes "AMD's former manufacturing division opened for business last week as GlobalFoundries, but the spin-off may run afoul of AMD's 2001 cross-licensing agreement with Intel. Indeed, Intel has formally accused AMD of violating the agreement, and threatened to terminate the company's licenses in 60 days if a resolution is not found. Intel contends that GlobalFoundries is not a subsidiary of AMD, and thus is not covered by the licensing agreement. AMD has fired back, insisting that it has done nothing wrong, and that Intel's threat constitutes a violation of the deal. At stake is not only AMD's ability to build processors that use Intel's x86 technology, but also Intel's ability to use AMD's x86-64 tech in its CPUs."
I, for one, welcome our new strong ARM'd overlords.
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"I'll let you play with mine if I can play with yours."
Man, if I had a nickel...
Quit jabbering on the phone while driving. You are not that important.
sounds RISCy.
Windows on PPC... Then Microsoft will tout how much faster PPC is than x86 based processors, and the world ends in an infinite loop.
I traded all my mod points for these magic beans.
You'd probably swallow it by accident.
The two-party system is here to stay in American politics and the x86 stranglehold.
And operating systems and phone companies and potato chips and cereals and sexes.
Don't blame me, I bought a Cyrix!
Feel free to mock me, however.
as long as it doesn't SPARC an idea.
When all else fails, try.