Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulation is a patent minefield

Re:Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulatio... by someSven on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:57PM (#14529884)

May someone please elaborate on the difference between what MS does and emulators on Linux like Quemu and ExaGear?

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Re:Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulatio... by comex on Saturday June 10, 2017 @08:46PM (#14530039)

The difference, as it pertains to the patent issue, is nothing technical - it's simply that Intel feels threatened by Microsoft's emulator and not by qemu. (Though if Intel has ever redistributed qemu, there may be an additional GPL wrinkle...)

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Re:Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulatio... by rwmj on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:10AM (#14531301)

Intel contributes to qemu (or at least, developers with @intel.com email addresses contribute). However AFAIK they don't contribute to the emulation code (TCG).

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Re:Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulatio... by clouddrover on Saturday June 10, 2017 @08:26PM (#14529960)

Here's a Microsoft Channel 9 video in which they talk about the x86 emulation layer:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171

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Re:Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulatio... by chucklenorris on Sunday June 11, 2017 @08:56AM (#14531794)

I quickly watched this and they seem to be running a jit with disk caching. Also they had League of Legends on the desktop so i'm guessing they support sse instructions.

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Re:Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulatio... by criddell on Saturday June 10, 2017 @10:27PM (#14530300)

Market size. Intel can choose to sue or not sue. There's no obligation to chase after every infringement, so the ones they do chase are picked by bean counters.

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