Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 04/06/2004 03:44 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ] · 3544 views
Just spotted this bit of Info over at ExtremeTech!
After investigating the instruction sets used by 64-bit chips from AMD and Intel, an industry analyst has concluded that Intel reverse-engineered the AMD64 instruction set to create its own 64-bit microprocessor architecture.
Tom Halfhill, an analyst at In-Stat/MDR in San Jose, said Monday that he had compared the instruction sets of AMD's 64-bit chips, called AMD64, with the 64-bit extensions to be used in the Intel Xeon processor and future desktop chips. The smoking gun, Halfhill said, was Intel's choice to mimic a decision AMD made in its early Opteron designs, and later reversed.
Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64
After investigating the instruction sets used by 64-bit chips from AMD and Intel, an industry analyst has concluded that Intel reverse-engineered the AMD64 instruction set to create its own 64-bit microprocessor architecture.
Tom Halfhill, an analyst at In-Stat/MDR in San Jose, said Monday that he had compared the instruction sets of AMD's 64-bit chips, called AMD64, with the 64-bit extensions to be used in the Intel Xeon processor and future desktop chips. The smoking gun, Halfhill said, was Intel's choice to mimic a decision AMD made in its early Opteron designs, and later reversed.
Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64
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Boogieman Unregistered |
#52429 Posted on: 04/06/2004 03:54 PM
"Intel reverse-engineered the AMD64 instruction set to create its own 64-bit microprocessor architecture." What a shock !!  |
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vegetto34 Unregistered |
#52430 Posted on: 04/06/2004 04:43 PM
Are you stupid? AMD doesn't own any of their "64-bit" technology. It is all property of Intel - the owners of x86. Intel copied NOTHING. |
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cmsmith Unregistered |
#52431 Posted on: 04/06/2004 04:57 PM
That's not correct. AMD was given free use of Intel's stuff in a cross licensing agreement some years back. AMD took this stuff, added some of it's own stuff to it and extended it to 64-bits. It's now different enough that AMD can say it's their own. The irony of it all is that due to the cross licensing agreement, Intel can use it without paying royalties. However, if Intel should add a memory controller to their CPU, that might change... |
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BetrayerX Unregistered |
#52432 Posted on: 04/06/2004 05:10 PM
That's true! |
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Mike500 Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: 2003-08-01 |
#52434 Posted on: 04/06/2004 05:28 PM
Well this news is wrong, since Intel and AMD have a technology exchange agreement (don't know the exact term), that's also why AMD can use SSE and SSE2. |
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Boogieman Unregistered |
#52435 Posted on: 04/06/2004 05:39 PM
NO...you are stupid! Your statement makes no sense? Why would Intel reverse engineer what it "supposedly" already owns then? Couple that with what others have said, I suggest you remove foot from mouth. |
