> With Intel's patents on emulating x86 on other CPU architectures,
AMD released the x86-64 documentation more than 20 years ago; any patents on that (which includes SSE2) would have already expired by now.
AMD released the x86-64 documentation more than 20 years ago; any patents on that (which includes SSE2) would have already expired by now.
As Arstechnica wrote, Intel specifically warned that they hold patents on emulating the more recent instruction sets.