On 12/11/2018 22:59, Juan Erbes wrote:
You forgot The Pentium was based on patents stolen to Digital from the Alpha risc processor http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/06/09/2275...
News to me. It looks like DEC tried to argue this and failed.
Yes, dominant with monopolic and mafia tactics, but no "because is the best"!
That is paranoid and I submit absurd. Intel *invented* x86. Did anyone force HP to share PA-RISC? Did anyone force Mostek to share the 6502? If anyone copies ARM, then ARM Ltd stops them. x86 is Intel's invention. Some customers insisted that the chip be second-sourced -- in other words, that other vendors were allowed to make it to remove dependence on a single manufacturer. So Intel licensed it to other vendors. Some enhanced it. But accusing Intel of being unfair, monopolistic etc. in controlling _its own invention_ is ridiculous.
Other time when AMD launched the X86-64 Opterons, and dominated the server market: http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/suse_archive/cray.html
That was one of my points, yes.
In November 12, 2009 Intel and AMD settle, agree cross-licensing deal, on which Intel has payed AMD $1.25bn and the two companies will share patent rights for the next five years, while AMD has cancelled all antitrust litigation against Intel https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-and-amd-settle-agree-cross-licensing-dea...
Yes, so?
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312509236705/dex102.htm
A year ago according to a report by Fundzilla, Intel has reached a deal to license AMD’s graphics technology, though neither of the two companies have acknowledged or refuted the news. During the last year, there has been a lot of speculation that Intel was contemplating switching over to AMD graphics when its cross-licensing deal with Nvidia ends in March 2017 https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/05/17/licensing-deal-wit...
*Speculation*. No proof. Intel is going its own way with GPUs and they're good enough, so far. Both AMD and nVidia mainly focus on the lucrative gamer market. Intel has picked up that business users -- a huge sector -- and people who want better battery life from portables don't _need_ high-power GPUs. My little Mac mini drove a pair of 24" screens off its Core i5's built-in GPU and it was fine, even for the little gaming I do.
When I say "the intel microprocessors are buggy and insecure", I refer to this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/intel-ceos-sale-of-st...
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