You're pretty clueless are you not? Intel has worked with people like IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung and heck even AMD. AMD was almost dead in the water during their time developing NexGen chip Intel could have killed them at that time but knowing how the Government would have reacted they thrown them a lifeline. You act like Intel some small upstart that cannot compete with the big boys lol please.
Heck AMD did not even design their own X86 design instead was licensed to manufacture X86 chips for Intel "That's interesting lol". It wasn't till they acquired a little known upstart NextGen did they get a chip that could run X86 microcode via hardware emulation on the chip. They had their work cut out for them but they where much further along then anyone else in making that work.
So please understand Intel will not be out of this for long they have over 50 years of patents and technology to make this work.
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NexGen (
Milpitas, California) was a private
semiconductor company that designed
x86 microprocessors until it was purchased by
AMD in 1996.
[1] NexGen was a
fabless design house that designed its chips but relied on other companies for production.
NexGen's chips were produced by IBM's Microelectronics division.
The company was best known for the unique implementation of the x86 architecture in its processors. NexGen's CPUs were designed very differently from other processors based on the x86 instruction set at the time: the processor would translate code designed to run on the traditionally
CISC-based x86 architecture to run on the chip's internal
RISC architecture.
[2] The architecture was used in later AMD chips such as the
K6, and to an extent most x86 processors today implement a "hybrid" architecture similar to those used in NexGen's processors.
It went public in 1994, and was bought by AMD in 1995 for $850M. The technology forms the platform architecture for all of AMD’s current microprocessors. It was an unusual start-up in its time as the original funding came from corporate investors,
Compaq and
Olivetti, joined in a later round by
venture capital firm
Kleiner Perkins."