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Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64

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edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
It has been reported that 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.

[blockquote]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.
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  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    scumbags...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Are AMD scumbags for having reverse engineered x86? ;D
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited April 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Are AMD scumbags for having reverse engineered x86? ;D
    No. ;)
  • res0r9lmres0r9lm Florida
    edited April 2004
    Inhel and amd has had an agreement to share instructions for years. It really doesn't make much sense to buy inhel-64 cpus at their jacked up prices when it's not even their technology I can see if they were going to sold at a reduced price. AMD is the innovator and Inhel is the imatator but if they can produce xeon64's that preform as well and cheaper I would consider buying a few but I would never pay the same as I would for an opteron.
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