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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by pjmlp on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:04AM (#24479850)
Those cross licenses are the only reason why this laptop isn't running on Itanium, without them there wouldn't exist AMD64.
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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B by rcgorton on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:07PM (#24482900)
The 'only' reasons (plural) that your laptop does not run Itanium: - battery life: an Itanium in a laptop would run for less than an your - too hot: Itanium servers ran incredibly hot due to power. A laptop would probably catch fire in short order - Windows was not supported on Itanium - cost: would you pay $5K for an Itanium laptop?
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