And if you think you’re free of them because you have an AMD chip, that’s just Intel’s instruction set with a different badge on the silicon. At least AMD licenses it, though — in the 80s ...

The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose ...

From the consumer space it often would appear as if Intel’s CPU making history is pretty much a straight line from the 4004 to the 8080 ... RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture ...