Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  X64 doesn’t exist. Microsoft used the label for Windows for a while to distinguish from IA64 (Itanium) and 32bit x86 editions of Windows but these days Microsoft moved mostly away from those labels and only uses them when talking about ARM.

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• Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You did, AMD holds the x64 license, Intel holds the x86.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The x86 license itself doesn’t matter much anymore. Those patents expired a long time ago. Early x86_64 is held by AMD, but those patents are also expiring soon.

    There’s more advancements past that which are held by both Intel and AMD. You still can’t make a modern x86 CPU on your own. Soon, you’ll be able to make a CPU with an instruction set compatible with the first Athlon 64-bit processors, but that’s as far as it goes.

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• ruplicant@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  x86_64

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