On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: >> The "(C)Intel" is a copyright notice. It was designed and made by >> AMD, but AMD licensed some Intel intellectual property for it. :) > > You say Intel licensed "some" intellectual property... I believe AMD > licensed the 80286 from Intel as a whole.
OK, could be. My memory gets kind of fuzzy going that far back. :) > Certainly there are several levels of "design" (package, carrier, > layout, etc...) but I think lots of folks think of "instruction set & > processing architecture" when referring to designing a chip family, like > the 286. AMD, at some point, started cloning x86. Intel would introduce an instruction set extension and AMD would do their own implementation. Or so AMD claimed. The two have spent a lot of time in and out of court fighting over it. -- Ben
