12 Sep
2006
12 Sep
'06
6:52 p.m.
On 2006-09-12T11:09:04-0500, Chris Abbott wrote:
They just basically get their hands on an AMD
processor, figure out
how it works, and make their own. One piece of evidence is that AMD
came out with the first 64-bit x86 processor.
AMD licensed the x86 extensions (to x86 ) as an open architecture. This
was a smart strategy to derail wide adaption of Itanium.
/Allan