Apparently you're a victim of the Intel marketing machine. Microsoft optimized Direct X for AMD's 'special instructions' just like Intel's MMX. What's that, AMD did their own research? AMD's cloning involves finding out -exactly- what each instruction does, not how it's done. That would be a blatant breach of patent laws, etc. They just want to make sure their processors do all the same quirky things Intel's do. (See http://www.x86.org). At any rate, AMD's core has been superior to Intel's for some things for a long time (since the K6). Floating point isn't one of them, unfortunately for 3D gamers. Their caching code is better on their newer chips and their RISC core is more advanced (better for building on than Intel's which keeps getting overhauled). Maybe you should follow the industry to make a comment?
MMX is licensed, Intel was pissed because AMD used the term MMX in their advertising literature and Intel wanted them to pay to be able to use their trademark. This, incidentally, came down to whether MMX stands for MultiMedia instruXions;) or just MMX. The law now stands that it's just MMX and it doesn't stand for anything (or Intel wouldn't be allowed to mark it as a trademark).
Enjoy your wierd world. AMD's not better than Intel or vice-versa. They both pay engineers to develop chips from the ground up. They both design innovations and new subsystems. Think Super-7. Think of the fact that the K7 uses an Alpha bus (far superior to Intel's).
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Apparently you're a victim of the Intel marketing machine. Microsoft optimized Direct X for AMD's 'special instructions' just like Intel's MMX. What's that, AMD did their own research? AMD's cloning involves finding out -exactly- what each instruction does, not how it's done. That would be a blatant breach of patent laws, etc. They just want to make sure their processors do all the same quirky things Intel's do. (See http://www.x86.org). At any rate, AMD's core has been superior to Intel's for some things for a long time (since the K6). Floating point isn't one of them, unfortunately for 3D gamers. Their caching code is better on their newer chips and their RISC core is more advanced (better for building on than Intel's which keeps getting overhauled). Maybe you should follow the industry to make a comment?
;) or just MMX. The law now stands that it's just MMX and it doesn't stand for anything (or Intel wouldn't be allowed to mark it as a trademark).
MMX is licensed, Intel was pissed because AMD used the term MMX in their advertising literature and Intel wanted them to pay to be able to use their trademark. This, incidentally, came down to whether MMX stands for MultiMedia instruXions
Enjoy your wierd world. AMD's not better than Intel or vice-versa. They both pay engineers to develop chips from the ground up. They both design innovations and new subsystems. Think Super-7. Think of the fact that the K7 uses an Alpha bus (far superior to Intel's).
Have a nice day.