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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by MBCook on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:53PM (#16737922)
I’m not sure they can for this purpose. I remember people talking about the idea of buying AMD but it’s possible the license terms may say it doesn’t survive a purchase; making AMD or Via worthless for that purpose.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Phrodo_00 on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:26PM (#16740779)
Unless the licensing terms are extremely lopsided, they'd still own AMD64 patents which EM64T is based on, and intel would need to strike a new deal. VIA's situation should be similar, but with other technologies.
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