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
