Re: [oc] legality of cores?!

[Steve Wilson <stevew@intrinsix.com>]

FYI,

Intel doesn't receive royalties from AMD.  They had a second-sourcing agreement
back in the 70's, 80's. There was a BIG lawsuit around the 486. Amongst other
things, Intel found out you can't trademark a bloody number  - the the term
Pentium.



 Mlinar wrote:

> Jeffrey Hanoch wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Jim, you ask a good question.  However, I don't believe it is illegal to use
> > information freely available in order to reverse engineer a processor.  As
> > long as no inside private information from ARM is used, it should be legal.
> > AMD obviously makes a clone of the Intel processors and gets away with it.
> > But it should be checked out as I am not a Lawyer (thank God).
>
> AMD must pay some royalties to Intel and I think Intel does this
> just because of that monopol law...
>
> We solved all those legacy problems, by designing OR1k RISC.
>
> regards,
>         Marko