On 26 May 2009, at 07:27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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I did think that. But with other instructions adopted by the other
manufacturer (eg. Intel adopted the amd64 architecture, I think?) it
seemed odd that a set of instructions would be ignored so long.
because 3dnow is/was very unimportant for intel- but Intel couldn't
compete
without AMD64. So they had to licence it. 3dnow and SSE have a lot
of commands
in common/similar commands anyway so it doesn't really matter from
Intels POV.
Completely OT now, but I seem to have a recollection that they have a
cross-licensing agreement which covers stuff like this without further
royalties.
Thanks for your help & the interesting discussion,
Stroller.
