different CPUs?

Only AMD and Intel atm have x86 license. Other companies make chips for servers and other digital products. Motorola made mac chips back in the day.

And IBM makes the wii and xbox chips.
 
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VIA makes some CPUs http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157209

at one time or another all of the following have manufactured CPUs, but have been bought out by each other and then by Intel/AMD
Hagenu, Microchip, QED, Synertek, AMI, Harris, Mitsubishi, RCA, Temic (MHS), C-Cube, Hitachi, MME, Rise, Tesla, CHIPS, HP, MIL, Rockwell (responsible for chevrolets first entry into OBD I chips), TI, CMDMicro, Hughes, MOS, Samsung, Toshiba, Cypress, IBM, Mostek, SGS, ULSI. Cyrix, IDT, Motorola, Sharp, UMC, Dallas, IIT, National Semi., Siemens, DEC , Inmos, NCR, Signetics, VLSI, Electronic, Arrays. NEC., Sony, Weitek, Fairchild, Intersil, NexGen, SSS, WD, Fujitsu, LC Tech, OKI, ST, WDC, GTEu, LSI., Philips, Sun Micro., Zilog, SCL, Unitra Cemi, Pravetz, DDR-MME, Atmel, MHS, NKK, Performance Semi., SiLabs, Transmeta
 
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x86(-64) chips... with the exception of VIA mentioned, no, and even VIA targets mostly niche markets (ultra low power and really small form factor embedded products).

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is there anything out there thats better then x86 but just cant really take off becuase of how huge intel is
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There's ARM and MIPS which are relatively common (ARM more or less dominates mobile markets). However, them taking off isn't so much to do with Intel's size than the sheer popularity of x86... all mainstream operating systems and, as a corollary, applications run on x86. Nobody will make a computer that uses an architecture which has no software available on it, and nobody will develop for an architecture that does not exist.

Of course, Linux is already available on numerous architectures and with rumours of Windows 8 coming out on ARM as well... this may very well change in the future.
 
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hackapelite said:
x86(-64) chips... with the exception of VIA mentioned, no, and even VIA targets mostly niche markets (ultra low power and really small form factor embedded products).

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There's ARM and MIPS which are relatively common (ARM more or less dominates mobile markets). However, them taking off isn't so much to do with Intel's size than the sheer popularity of x86... all mainstream operating systems and, as a corollary, applications run on x86. Nobody will make a computer that uses an architecture which has no software available on it, and nobody will develop for an architecture that does not exist.

Of course, Linux is already available on numerous architectures and with rumours of Windows 8 coming out on ARM as well... this may very well change in the future.
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i hope to see it change, would be much more variety, and more competition which is always good, things usually go on sale more when there is competition lol, and also other then nvidia and amd, anyone also make gpus?
 
and also other then nvidia and amd, anyone also make gpus?
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Well there's Intel which makes dreadful integrated GPUs...

I think matrox still makes some kind of graphic cards as well, but it's ages since they made anything for mainstream... I wonder what they're up to these days.
 
Matrox pretty much switched into the business of making workstation cards for multiple display usage once they fell behind in the late 90's, versus the power monsters of Ati/Nvidia cards nowadays.
 
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