AMD once again have a top performance crown

Re:AMD once again have a top performance crown by lolc on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:38PM (#17821939)

There are only AMD and Intel products in that list. I understand they have effectively ruled out competition with comprehensive patent coverage.

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Re:AMD once again have a top performance crown by BuildTheRobots on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:23PM (#17822784)

It looks like VIA[1] are actually planning on bringing out an AMD64[2] compatible CPU- though I honestly wonder if it'll get any traction at all (it could be interesting in the low power space assuming it can even vaguely compete on price).

[1] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3023729/via-techno...

[2] Yeah, I know we're supposed to call it x86-64 these days, but lets take a moment and remember some of the brilliance AMD can be capable of. And thank the gods we're not stuck with Itanium.

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Re:AMD once again have a top performance crown by binmanthrowaway on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:50PM (#17822066)

Nobody prevents anyone from creating competing CPU. It just won't have x86 instruction set.

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Re:AMD once again have a top performance crown by lolc on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:34AM (#17828086)

> Nobody prevents anyone from creating competing CPU.

I'm pretty sure that Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM and a host of others would disagree if you actually tried.

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