Why Are There Only Two CPU Companies?

Why are AMD and Intel your only options?

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[michaelbergman]

"The 1981 IBM Personal computer was the first PC."
"It blew it's competitors out of the market."

[cyberdog]

I liked that red vs blue reference at the end

[relaity]

plot twist: the guy is Linus in disguise but more chill

[radomiami]

TL;DR: Everything but AMD and Intel sucked so badly that they died. The end.

Hey, it's me two years from the future!

Don't take the TL;DR too seriously, it's a SpongeBob reference.

[AoCabo]

A couple of years ago: "why is there only one CPU company?"

I'd like to think we've made 100% progress

[ruxandy]

fun fact: AMD used to be team green :-)

[dimdimbramantyo]

1:49 for almost my entire life I finally know what AMD stands for

[harriskolj]

Imagine if Qualcomm randomly said that they're gonna start making a PC cpu, the earth would shatter

[mocsont]

A "low-cost, but powerful" Intel CPU. How times have changed.

[AlexTenThousand]

I like the fact that AMD managed to deadlock Intel into an agreement that ensures they can't just pull the rug out from under them. Intel owns the x86 instruction set and licenses it to AMD, but AMD owns the x86-64 architecture (or AMD64) and licenses it to Intel, and their attempts at an alternative 64-bit architecture like Itanium have failed miserably.

[liminjini]

*"Red pill or blue pill"*
This shit is relevant everywhere

[marcelosantos]

As a computer science student, I think that part of the reason they have taken out the market is that it is VERY hard to make a CPU better, so if you already have a base and dedicated team and resources it is easier to continue on the market than it is for other companies to enter the market, as they won't have the baseline of equipment and reputation

[seriousaleks]

Yo I love this guy. His voice is like BUTTER

[parlor]

When he said "Please colonel, I'm married", I felt that

[namuzed]

I love how Zilog (maker of the Z80 processor) is technically still around and being used.

[ScottGrammer]

Riley: Why are there only two cpu companies?

Apple: Who said there were only two?

[ccxcheng]

Nobody:
Subtitles: Korean

Edit: erm, they roll out their own subtitle, the joke can considered dead.

[catriona_drummond]

Meanwhile the Chinese happily make x86 CPU's with the old Cyrix/VIA license.

[superslike]

When I clicked on this video I was like: why is Linus voicing over this video?

[halfdead]

If memory serves, Intel wasn't too keen on licencing x86. It took AMD and Cyrix reverse engineering early Intel chips.
And I think IMB x86 CPUs were just rebranded Cyrix ones, because Cyrix desperately needed a fab to make their chips and IBM basically said "Sure we'll make your CPUs, But half of them are going to be IBM CPUs" and they didn't really have a better option.