Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Nov 2008 12:42 UTC
Netbooks are still all the rage these days, but according to Intel, this is going to change soon. The company has stated that they first thought that netbooks, who are almost exclusively powered by Intel chips, would be for emerging markets, but as it turns out, they are especially popular in Europe and North America. Intel claims that while these devices are "fine for an hour", they are not something for day to day use. And AMD? They are ignoring the market altogether.
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2006-01-10
Impasse is a word that works just as well in English, but then you still will always have the knee jerk responses.
Either way, I agree with you. I have never liked the x86 architecture, but have accepted the fact also that the better technologies hardly ever win out.
Just look at the Windows vs. Every other OS out there. Windows did not win out because of being the better technological operating system. It won out because of being bundled with every PC since it was available. Right place at the right time. I could only imagine if back then the Mac OS or Amiga Workbench had ran on x86 hardware and had been compatible with all the applications...
Anyhow, all of this is off topic. It's a shame that (as crappy as they were) Cyrix and the others that used to make x86 processors all died out, except AMD and Intel. I guess Via is out there in there small niche. But really, we need more competition in every processor slice so that we as consumers will get more benefits.