Comment Re:Will x86 ever be royalty free? (Score 1) 39
they could license it from Intel or AMD, depending on whether they want 32-bit or 64-bit CPUs
32 bit is over outside of embedded. (Even there I'm seeing mostly 64 bit cores now in the higher end.) Neither of these companies is making any 32 bit PC CPUs any more, intel announced they would stop two years ago. The x86 compatibility in modern processors is a minuscule part of the whole thing now.