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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by nabla9 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:50PM (#15802162)
RISC-V is just ISA. I don't think ISA's can be patented. Just some specific instructions.
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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by pkaye on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:57PM (#15802230)
Yes, they did the research for prior art to make sure that is the case for their instruction set.
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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by kindfellow92 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:43PM (#15804390)
ISAs can be patented. Intel is patenting their latest AVX/SSE instructions.
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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by hajile on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:22AM (#15806519)
ISA spec is copyrighted. Instructions aren't patented directly. Instead, the best ways of implementing them are patented.
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Re:Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-... by kindfellow92 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:24PM (#15810998)
Seems like Microsoft is potentially being targeted for writing an x86 emulator https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-sti...
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