Intel to kill AMD in 60 days

[nojustno]

NJ5 said:

Mistershine said:
Taken from the x86-64 article on wikipedia:

This has led to a case of mutually assured destruction should either company revoke its respective license. Should such a scenario take place, AMD would no longer be authorized to produce any x86 processors, and Intel would no longer be authorized to produce x86-64 processors, forcing them back to the now-obsolete 32-bit x86 architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

I would think AMD are safe for now.

What this tells me is that AMD has much more to lose than Intel. 64-bit applications are all pretty recent, so they don't suffer from the legacy support problems that make 32-bit support required.

If Intel can't make x86-64 CPUs, they can use their own 64-bit architecture and carry on.

If AMD can't make x86 CPUs, they're dead.

 

 

Which one? You do realize they don't have (as in own) one, right?