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Old August 20, 2008, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Spaceman-Spiff View Post
Problem is, a lot of patents for x86 are held by Intel. AMD and Via had some license agreements with Intel. If Intel doesn't want to give out anything to nVidia, then they won't be able to (legally) sell their x86 products.

If you want to know more, reading some Slashdot comments will shed some light.
I'm very aware of the limitations, just mentioning that this was at the Inq... thought it was funny :)
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