• DupaCycki
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    5 hours ago

    It’s all a matter of [relatively minor] investment into R&D. Would you prefer being a subject of Intel and AMD’s perpetual x86 duopoly forever?

    They can set whatever prices they like, because nobody else is allowed to touch their little instruction set. With the tiny exception of a Chinese company whose best CPU is the equivalent of an 8th gen i5.

    You’ll pay whatever they demand or you won’t have a PC. Yeah, this is so much fun compared to ‘dealing with ARM bullshit’.

    This entire architecture has lived way past its time. Intel and AMD being utter garbage corporations did not help in the least.

    Let it die along with those two dumpster fires, and move on.

    • woelkchen
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      2 hours ago

      Would you prefer being a subject of Intel and AMD’s perpetual x86 duopoly forever?

      That’s not how patents work. x64 patents lapse sometime THIS YEAR. Everyone can make 64bit x86 CPUs.