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Eh, x86 is about as proprietary as you can get. Intel allows exactly two companies, beside itself, to create x86 microprocessors: AMD and Via. Noone else can.
Compare with ARM.
You missed the point - x86 is highly documented and works with this.
AMD and NVIDIA GPU's are scarcely documented(AMD - newest, NVIDIA - all) and there is zero opensource API atm to use them efficiently.
On x86 you have various compilers and various libraries - all opensource.
What you mean is license to manufacture the hardware based on the specs.
Your response would be correct if I claimed neither AMD nor Nvidia allow MANUFACTURING 1:1 of their chips. They don't allow this either.
Of course GPU are a bit different from CPU, yet in near future I would like to offload big part of the code to GPU. No such opensource solution exists. I cannot work with hardware using opensource tools.
But there is also chinese Loongson(opensource in closed source government ftw!)
Actually nobody here has ever used their "oral skills" in the forum, writing skills for sure but not "oral skills".
"Oral skills" is an HR term, that they keep using and should instead discard, for "Verbal skills" which comprises of oratory and written skills- if you're not well spoken, you're likely to not be well written and vice-versa. They're called "verbal" because they are interrelated skillsets derived from the speech centers of the brain and correspond to transforming thoughts into words, spoken or written.
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