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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-05-18 , 00:18
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#74
Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I have an idea, why not drop x86 for something more space efficient before it's too late? Even if only a contingency, a more efficient instruction set would put serious heat on ARM. I expect the trick would be to fill in the software gap by providing compilers for linux.
Is this you saying as much, or a broken quote?

The problem with dropping x86 and moving on to something else is scaring the hell out of all the vendors suddenly faced with an entirely new ISA. Even for Intel that would be so extremely risky they'd probably be better off (ROI wise) just re-licensing ARM.

Not that I don't think it'd be cool to see Intel charge out of the gate with a new ISA designed around their newer processes (though they might at the lower levels of x86 these days,) but I think that even Intel would be crazy to try.
 

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