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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

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331 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 25 Sep 25 18:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
1. GartzenDeHaes ◴[25 Sep 25 22:45 UTC] No.45380214[source]▶
> they wouldn’t have to worry about competing CPU designs, at least not for a very long time.

US Government sales require two vendors, which I think is why AMD had x86 licenses in the first place.

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2. colejohnson66 ◴[26 Sep 25 17:27 UTC] No.45388904[source]▶
IBM*. They approached Intel for the 8088 for the 5150, but said "We want a second source". So Intel reeled in AMD. Second sourcing at the time was pretty common.