Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Oct 2005 08:59 UTC
Intel has delayed by months the release of the next three major versions of the Itanium processor, a new blow for the processor family. But the chipmaker also plans a change it said will boost the performance of its more widely used Xeon line.
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"It may not be pretty but is sells."
That is the sad truth.
80x86 is like a lump of cheese. When it starts to look bad they add more cheese to cover up the mould. Consumers only care that it works and only see the nice fresh layer of cheese on the top, while developers have to put up with the increasing number of layers of decayed slime surrounding the original putrid lump.
The rest of 80x86 hardware isn't much better. IMHO it's one of the reasons Microsoft have managed to remain so dominant for so long - competitors spend too much effort buried in the architectural wasteland left over from 30 years of "backward compatability".
Intel had the intelligence to see that a shift to 64 bit was a good opportunity to start again with a clean design. AMD saw potential profit, and now we'll probably be suffering from the "curse of the putrid cheese" for another 30 years.