“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007)

Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by dannyw on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:19AM (#16076931)

AMD’s x86/x86-64 Cross licensing agreement terminates if they ever have more than X (I think 30% or 50%) of the desktop and server market share, so I don’t think so. The agreement purposefully gimps AMD as a minority player.

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by lloeki on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:33AM (#16076977)

> AMD’s x86/x86-64 Cross licensing agreement terminates if they ever have more than X (I think 30% or 50%)

Wow I'm surprised this is even legal because it sounds like an implemented monopoly.

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by phs2501 on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:52AM (#16077043)

Well if it means that AMD couldn't ship any x86 processors and Intel couldn't ship x86-64 (i.e. AMD64) processors, that effectively means neither of them could ship any modern x86 processors at all, so that's effectively mutually-assured destruction. If that were in any danger of happening I'd bet dollars to donuts it'd be renegotiated immediately since they both stand to lose everything.

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by drvdevd on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:23AM (#16083991)

This is strange, I’d never heard of this agreement. As I understand it, Intel x86-64 was actually based on AMD’s amd64 design originally. So in reality they are still two separate architectures in a sense?

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by baldfat on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:15AM (#16078653)

Intel's biggest threat is not AMD but ARM.

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