<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">(I cut out the large amount of text to prevent the mail length from growing to the extreme)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Basically, if money and time were no issue, you had one real blocking issue preventing you from just buying an Intel CPU and building a system around it: legal reasons.</div><div class="">Intel does not give anyone the information needed to completely build a comparable platform around one of their CPUs. Perhaps you could (since you could have infinite money) buy Intel or a controlling part of Intel to influence this, but that’s about it.</div><div class="">Another thing locked by legalese documents would be people that have the skills and experience to do this. There aren’t a lot of them and almost all of them work at Intel. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The x86 platform is not just about some registers, some PCB design and some code, if that was all there was to it, anyone could build something with the right information. There is deep knowledge and insight at the implementation level of the silicon and microcode (and bootrom!) required to build something around an Intel CPU from scratch. Some legal measures prevent people at Intel from working at a comparable job in a competitive manner. At the same time, those people might have status or perks in a non-monetary fashion that you cannot give them. Short of stealing people, you may simply not have a way to get access to the people required to build anything.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, would it technically be possible to build something from scratch based on a Intel CPU? Yes. But it is not feasible. Not even with 1000 people and a billion dollars. Perhaps with 100k people and 100 billion dollars.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Sep 2018, at 18:16, Peter Stuge <<a href="mailto:peter@stuge.se" class="">peter@stuge.se</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">[ …]</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>