Intel (was Re:GUI)

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Henry Spencer wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, William Park wrote:
> > > Speak for yourself.  Here they're running on AMD CPUs, plus a few
> > > other flavors...
> >
> > This is borderline amateurish.  Intel gets royalty, for every AMD sold.
>
> References, please.  My understanding is that the cross-licensing
> agreement between Intel and AMD was dissolved long ago, and there is
> nothing in current AMD CPUs that requires tithing to Intel.  They most
> certainly are *NOT* making duplicates of Intel's designs -- the AMD ones
> are markedly better.

I understand that AMD had to reverse engineer Intel chips (in the sense of
functional reverse engineering) for quite a while before things settled
into the current state, with only 'minor' differences in features and
setup.

Peter
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