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Re:Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role by lightedman on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:44PM (#13546163)
Please. I buy AMD then Intel loses the 64 licensing rights which AMD owns.

That really sounds like a winning proposition for Apple, given that Intel's own 64-bit arches historically sucked.

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Re:Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role by mschuster91 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:20PM (#13546449)
> That really sounds like a winning proposition for Apple, given that Intel's own 64-bit arches historically sucked.

Yeah but for various reasons any usable amd64 CPU needs backwards compatibility with x86 - which, if Apple doesn't want to go the Fat Binary emulation approach again, requires that an Apple-bought AMD must achieve a licensing deal with Intel to maintain said compatibility.

Then again, Apple these days doesn't give a ... about BC anymore anyway, so they might as well go down that track and use only amd64.

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