AMD tops Nvidia in graphics chip shipments

[energyman]

either way, there is much more in x86 than just the instruction set.

[deanjo]

either way, there is much more in x86 than just the instruction set.

Sure there is, there is also more then one way to skin a cat.

[pingufunkybeat]

Actually it is the other way around. SSE2/3/4 are instruction sets ion the hardware and are patented, not copywrited. Copywrites apply to written word (or code).

It's copy-RIGHT, not copy-write.

It's a right to copy something, not a "write" to copy something.

For the same reason, things get copyrighted, and not copy-"written".

Or is this some geek inside joke, like box->boxen?

[bridgman]

I thought "copywriting" was the act of violating copyright