AMD is working on a brand new x86 CPU core

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Pemalite said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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Intel owns the original x86 patents and many 32-bit extensions, like MMX, etc, but AMD created and owns x86-64 extension. Intel already filed a lawsuit against AMD when it split research and development from manufacturing and they reached an agreement extending the cross-licensing terms.
BTW, AMD uses RISC cores with an instruction translation layer since the k5, this could be used in tribunal if AMD were taken over by a corporation able to challenge Intel more effectively.
About the money, or lack of, I agree with you, that's why I wish some company take AMD over.

RISC vs CISC is a non-issue these days.

Intel uses micro-op convertors to exploit the pipelining advantages of RISC.
Basically they take the complex instructions of CISC, break them down into RISC like sizes and executes them.

As far as I know, neither AMD or Intel have any patents regarding such an implementation, so who knows how it would stand up in court.

In fact my point wasn't about instruction conversion patentability, but that good lawyers could persuade a court that such CPUs don't actually run those instruction set, but simply translate them into their own internal ones for compatibility sake.