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"AMD kept thinking they were a chip making company and didn't unload what became Global Foundries fast enough"

Ah but they were only capable of do that after their settlement with Intel (I mean, the Intel anti-trust settlement)

Before that if you wanted to make x86 chips the condition is that you manufactured the chips or something like that



Very valid point. The albatross of x86 licensing/patents is a hard one to git rid of.




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