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x5n1 on June 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft might be interested in buying AMD

Ok so we will only have Intel when it comes to desktop and laptop processors and running anything but Windows. Great.

Xylemon on June 30, 2015 [–]

I also hear they want to start doing binary blobs and ditch their open source drivers. Yay!

bpye on June 30, 2015 | [–]

This isn't really new, the difference is the binary blob is being at runtime instead of being part of your UEFI image or whatever, Intel have surely had "binary blobs" before, possibly in some write only memory too.

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