Thank you. Thank you for giving me hope lol
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magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoImagine if x86-64 got blown open because of it? Might literally be the best thing to happen to computing in like 40 years.
Really fuckin’ doubt it’ll happen, but a girl can dream XP
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The base x86-64 patents expired in 2021. Also, it was held by AMD, not Intel.
However, there are a lot of extensions that are still under patent. You can make an x86-64 processor the way it was when Opteron was released in 2003, but it won’t be competitive with current offerings. Those extensions are patented by a mix of both Intel and AMD. Intel failing isn’t going to fully open x86-64.
Eldritch@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
Or, what if it just became irrelevant. It's had a great run. But honestly ARM has shown plenty of versatility and power. While being licensable unlike x86. And things like riscv have similar of not better potential.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Its always going to be relevant, even only when emulated, simply because of how many code bases are stuck on x86/x86-64.
Open sourcing it and all of its extensions solves the licensing problems of not only itself, but Arm, while providing a battle tested architecture with decades of maturity.
Eldritch@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
Oh I have no issues with it being relevant in the same sense the Z80 68k or 6502 still being relevant. Just not part of a controlling duopoly.