Mistershine on 19 July 2015
| Protendo said: Does everyone realize that Microsoft wouldn't have access to the 32bit/64bit licensing agreement if they purchased AMD. That purchase would mean AMD CPUs are dead. It'd be a shame if the next architecture is actually good. If they can find a way to keep the license, then I think with Microsoft backing we could really get some competition into the hardware sector.... I just don't see how that would be possible. |
The license goes both ways. AMD owns the x64 extension to Intel's x86 instruction set. It would be in Intel's best interest to keep the agreement alive.
