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Can you use both AMD and Intel?
Yes. This can be accomplished through the use of a motherboard that contains either an AMD processor and an Intel processor, or by using a Socket AM3+ or LGA 1151 motherboard that supports both AMD and Intel processors.
Can AMD processor be replaced by Intel?
They use different sockets, so you can’t plug one into the other. Short answer – no. AMD and Intel use completely different socket types. Additionally, Intel has contact pads on their processors that make contact with pins in the socket, and AMD has the opposite (pins on the processor, contact slots in the socket).
Does AMD pay Intel royalties?
Intel and AMD have a patent cross-licensing agreement that allows them both to use certain patents related to CPU design/manufacture royalty-free. Prior to the 2009 agreement, AMD DID pay Intel royalties.
Can a motherboard support Intel and AMD?
Intel motherboards come with Intel chipsets that work only with processors from the company, likewise with AMD. You cannot physically install an Intel CPU on an AMD motherboard and vice versa.
Is x86 obsolete?
The processor has nothing to do with it. Since the newer processes has become more resource hungry & since there is a limit of what an x86 based processor can compute when compared to the x64 model,it would be suffice to say, that the x86 architecture has indeed become outdated & obsolete.
Is x86 a 64 bit?
x86 refers to a 32-bit CPU and operating system while x64 refers to a 64-bit CPU and operating system.
Is it possible to reverse engineer an Intel CPU?
There are several companies which are able to reverse engineer some parts of modern chips, but Intel’s CPUs are too big to be fully reversed (this process will have impractical cost both in money and in man- and computer-hours). For example, reversing leader, Chipworks – www.chipworks.com – lists some examples:
Is it possible to re-program a microprocessor?
ReProgramming the processor is quite difficult (you will nead to create your own simi motherboard) . But reconstruct the microprocessor (changing its architecture and developing your own firmware by micro ops )is impossible in modern inter microprocessors . Even the updates to firmware is encrypted with key that is kept inside the processor.
Is it possible to reverse MIPS R3051 based PlayStation 1 CPU?
One of KR580VM80A reversers reported project about reversing (russian) MIPS R3051 based Playstation 1 CPU made with 0.8 μm (800 nm) feature size in 1995. Project site is http://psxdev.ru/. This CPU has 250 thousands transistors and three layers of metal.