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Intel is redesigning the X86 ISA all over. The new architecture APX will have 32 registers and other features.
Remains to be seen if the software vendors like Microsoft will bite or not. But it will be hard for AMD to get a patent cross license for the new ISA this time.
Intel is redesigning the X86 ISA all over. The new architecture X86S will have 32 registers and other features.
Remains to be seen if the software vendors like Microsoft will bite or not. But it will be hard for AMD to get a patent cross license for the new ISA this time.
X86S is dead and the 32GPR Registers is APX AMD will likely copy them anyway.
AMD doesn't put resources into these stuff imo they simply follow Intel in these regards.
Yeah I meant APX. Look, the AMD X86-64 patents have expired. So AMD has nothing to counter offer Intel this time like they did with AVX.
Intel has tried to make X86 a monopoly several times in the past. This would be nothing new for them.
There were many companies with a X86 license in the past and now basically you only have AMD. For example National Semiconductor and NEC used to have 8086 licenses. Intel tried to kill these 3rd party licenses when the i386 came out. They failed with regards to AMD and Cyrix. Then Intel tried to kill the X86 clones again with the Pentium.
With the Pentium, AMD and Cyrix could no longer make exact hardware clones and ended up making their own chip designs.
Don't be surprised if Intel does not license APX and AVX10 to other companies. If Intel try to make X86 a monopoly again.
