REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips, which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (Update: Qualcomm responds)
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The license cancellation could massively disrupt the Arm PC, AI, and smartphone market.
  • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
    38·
    7 days ago

    I’m just being a little pedantic. But I believe you meant x64?

    Edit: x86_64 thanks guys

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      X64 doesn’t exist. Microsoft used the label for Windows for a while to distinguish from IA64 (Itanium) and 32bit x86 editions of Windows but these days Microsoft moved mostly away from those labels and only uses them when talking about ARM.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        The x86 license itself doesn’t matter much anymore. Those patents expired a long time ago. Early x86_64 is held by AMD, but those patents are also expiring soon.

        There’s more advancements past that which are held by both Intel and AMD. You still can’t make a modern x86 CPU on your own. Soon, you’ll be able to make a CPU with an instruction set compatible with the first Athlon 64-bit processors, but that’s as far as it goes.