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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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