Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC
For year now, the x86 microprocessor market has been dominated by Intel and AMD, and the rivalry between the two companies forced both to be innovative in order to gain a competitive advantage over the other - benefiting customers. With the rise of 'mobile internet devices' and low-power budget notebooks, this new market will be enriched by not only Via, but also nVIDIA.
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2005-06-30
Sure, NT4 ran on X86, Alpha, MIPS and possibly other architectures (PPC?). I don't think portability for the OS itself is an issue. However, demand for backward compatibility mixed with lack of portability in legacy code led to the domination of the x86 architecture.
Anyway, recent processor architectures have so little to do with the original 8086... The x86 instructions are internally translated to micro-ops. Therefore, the ISA doesn't seem to stifle innovation.