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Comment by nebula8804

17 hours ago

A dead Intel could open the door to have more then three license holders. Isn't Intel the reason there are only three license holders?

The major patents on all the most important parts of x86 expired years ago now. Nobody wants to take on a legacy ISA with tons of footguns everywhere when newer ISAs have learned a lot of lessons from x86 about how to do things better.