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Re:The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market... by inteld on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:34PM (#13741410)
Intel has patents over the x86 instruction set.

Not the x86 instruction sets - that's out of patent protection a while ago (patents are max 20 years).

Maybe amd64 (which is more AMDs parents).

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Re:The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market... by mee_too on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:58PM (#13741508)
Yes, one can legally build and sell an 8086 clone. But there are tons of patented extensions in newer CPUs, e.g. http://www.patents.com/us-7499962.html .
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