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throwaway91111 on June 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 e...

Intel also makes arm processors (a cortex a5 i think?); perhaps they do license it.

AstralStorm on June 11, 2017 [–]

Licenses can be revoked, patents cannot other than by analysis and finding them invalid.

pgeorgi on June 12, 2017 | [–]

As soon as Intel licenses the ARM ISA for each device, ARM Ltd. probably doesn't care if it's implemented in silicon, software or expressive dance.

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