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intel compatibility and open architecture
Is intel's microprocessor architecture open one?
If not How come cyrix and via and amd make their processor *compatible* with the intel microprocessor and moreover market them with an adjective "compatible with intel"? don't intel take objection to that? greetings, Bob |
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Not so long as AMD and VIA keep paying Intel their licensing fees.
There are rather large and complicated cross-licensing agreements between the companies that involve a fair money and intellectual property changing hands. AMD and Via both are leading competitors of Intel and AMD is not enchroaching the intel's market. How intel sells its technology to its leading competitors? what is the business motivation behind this? greetings, Bob |
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Bob wrote:
Not so long as AMD and VIA keep paying Intel their licensing fees. There are rather large and complicated cross-licensing agreements between the companies that involve a fair money and intellectual property changing hands. AMD and Via both are leading competitors of Intel and AMD is not enchroaching the intel's market. How intel sells its technology to its leading competitors? what is the business motivation behind this? In some cases, it's due to a court-order (i.e. AMD). In other cases, it's due to a historical alliance between Intel and another company (i.e. IBM). Or in other cases, it could be just a straight exchange for royalties. Yousuf Khan |
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Tony Hill wrote:
player (less than 1% of the market). Same goes for Transmeta, who will almost certainly soon go under/be bought out by someone anyway. No sooner said, than voila, first rumours: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18984 Yousuf Khan |
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:27:09 -0400, "Yousuf Khan"
wrote: Tony Hill wrote: player (less than 1% of the market). Same goes for Transmeta, who will almost certainly soon go under/be bought out by someone anyway. No sooner said, than voila, first rumours: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18984 There ya go, though I don't think this is the "first" rumor. People have been speculating that Transmeta might be bought out ever since their first Crusoe processors started getting dropped by all the hype-riding customers. As soon as people figured out that the performance of these chips was abysmal, they kind of lost interest in their low-power characteristics. Interesting that they mention nVidia is the most likely buyer though. That's the first time I've heard this tidbit. I suppose it's not entirely out of line, though it doesn't exactly strike me as the smartest move. Mind you, maybe they have something up their sleeves that I haven't heard of yet. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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Tony Hill wrote in message . ..
Interesting that they mention nVidia is the most likely buyer though. That's the first time I've heard this tidbit. I suppose it's not entirely out of line, though it doesn't exactly strike me as the smartest move. Mind you, maybe they have something up their sleeves that I haven't heard of yet. It wouldn't make much sense to me either. It's not the first time that a big-name company came to the aid of a struggling x86 manufacturer (e.g. National Semi buys Cyrix, then VIA buys Cyrix and Centaur). NatSemi never made Cyrix a success ever again. I can't see Nvidia doing much to shore up Transmeta. Basically, Nvidia-Transmeta would have to live in the shadow of AMD, much like VIA-Cyrix does right now, both supporting AMD and competing against it using AMD-derived technology (e.g. AMD64 & Hypertransport). Via has said that their next x86 CPU will have both AMD64 and Hypertransport, as well as an integrated RAM controller. Actually, it's kind of interesting nowadays, people are really making AMD-compatible processors, not Intel-compatible. Transmeta just recently added the NX-bit support, and it already has Hypertransport support. Probably because Intel is jealously guarding its technology, and AMD is happily sharing its. Yousuf Khan |
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