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Do those only apply to hardware implementations? Apple and Microsoft are both shipping x86_64 emulators that support SSE/AVX/AVX2

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They both probably have licenses; Intel stated in 2017 they intended to require licenses for emulators: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2017/06/16/intel...

Presumably Apple and Mocrosoft both have counter-leverage of requiring app developers to ship native binaries at some point in the future.

Wait, you can patent an operation? Is it not considered an API? I assumed the Java case would meant you couldn't. I would think it would be limited to the hardware implementation, or maybe some specifics of the alg.

Are you willing to fight Intel's lawyers about it, or are you gonna quietly pay them a fee and move on?

Then how does QEMU handle that? Or Bochs?

They said that, but my understanding was that they were really trying to scare apple back on to x86-64. It didn't work, and it was pretty specious anyway.

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