Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Aug 2005 16:46 UTC, submitted by Nicholas Blachford
"At next week's Intel developer forum, the firm is due to announce a next generation x86 processor core. The current speculation is this new core is going too be based on one of the existing Pentium M cores. I think it's going to be something completely different."
Thread beginning with comment 19668
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
The author ignores several important considerations. The most important being that the OS kernel has to be written to the new processor. If simply changing ISA was a slam-dunk performance/watt win, it would have been done long ago.
Creating a new ISA is huge, requires new kernels, new drivers, not to mention all the internal stuff. Itanium is supposedly a superior architecture, but it simply hasn't taken off at all.
There may be large-scale structural changes in the processor, they might have even designed a new microISA for internal processor usage, but I'm betting that they aren't crazy enough to have come out with a new ISA for desktop platforms.
Not that I wouldn't welcome a switch from the antiquated x86 architecture, but Intel simply isn't that radical with it's bread and butter.