Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of AMD could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms. On Tuesday, AMD announced plans to spin off its manufacturing operations into a separate company tentatively called The Foundry. The restructuring lets struggling AMD rid itself of the financial burden of running fabrication plants and provides a hefty influx of cash from its partner in the deal, Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC).Now, rival Intel is throwing a flag on the play. "We certainly have to evaluate it," said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. "It certainly could be a change in the competitive landscape." Mulloy explained that Intel and AMD have licensed each other's patents since 1976. Among other things, the latest pact signed in 2001 calls for AMD to pay royalties to Intel for the use of its x86 architecture.
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Well unless intel wants to force everyon onto an entirely new x64 architecture without any similarity to A64...
yeah sure it can't exist without x86, but on the other hand, They'd have to end all suport for the 64 bti processor they have released and start ompletely fresh with a new technology.
Well unless intel wants to force everyon onto an entirely new x64 architecture without any similarity to A64...
yeah sure it can't exist without x86, but on the other hand, They'd have to end all suport for the 64 bti processor they have released and start ompletely fresh with a new technology.
nothing will happen for the simple fact that anti-trust authorities will not go for a de-facto monopoly of intel, should they decide to revoke the x86 license.
i think this time intel should be better shutting up and let it be.
Yeah, I'm so sure.
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