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Vogtinator on Sept 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the thi...

Software emulation is fine (otherwise QEMU would be pretty dead), it's just hardware accelerated emulation and actual HW implementations of the ISA that Intel does not like.

monocasa on Sept 20, 2017 [–]

There's no real case law on that, unfortunately.

And Intel has been making claims that they could start to litigate. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_s...

lightedman on Sept 20, 2017 | [–]

I know the x86 instruction set up to at least the 486 has had its patents expire. Intel wouldn't win on every claim.

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