• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Quite the opposite. Well, sort of.

    It’s easy to get a licence, you just need money. Lots of money.

    That’s if you can get a licence. Intel only licensed to AMD because the USA military requires two vendors.

    ARM charges an, err, arm and a leg.

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      1 year ago

      Intel licensed to Cyrix (now VIA) as well, and it wasn’t the military but IBM that wanted more suppliers

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, I even had a VIA! What happen to them?

        That was all from unreliable memory. TY for the error correction.