On 11/13/18 12:29 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
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.
If I remember correctly, the 6502 was actually licensed by a lot of companies like NEC, Sharp and so on which is why it was so widely adopted.
So Intel licensed it to other vendors. Some enhanced it.
To which vendors? There are only two vendors on this planets which have an x86 license, those are AMD and VIA, the latter having sublicensed to some Chinese companies. Intel has actually a very tight grip on their IP unlike other vendors of CPU designs like ARM, Sun and IBM.
But accusing Intel of being unfair, monopolistic etc. in controlling _its own invention_ is ridiculous.
Actually, there was an antitrust lawsuit from the EU against Intel for exactly that reason. I don't know what the current status of that lawsuit is though.
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...
Not only Intel is vulnerable to this new class of speculative-execution exploits.
Wasn't the very recent one only affecting Intel?
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/intel-foreshadow-vulnerability
To be fair, I lost the overview over the amount of vulnerabilities there. There are definitely much cleaner and better CPU designs than what Intel produces. Adrian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org