On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: >> bottom line, if AMD want to stay in business they need to get out of >> x86. part-hardware-emulated x86 fine (like the Loongson 3H >> architecture did), non-x86, fine. pure x86: dying and dead very soon. > > Intel already tried that a *long* time ago, with the Itanium. It was provided > with software that emulated the x86. But AMD made a 64-bit hardware version > of the > x86 and took over the market because its hardware outran the emulation on the > Itanium, forcing Intel to follow suit or lose the Windows market.
i assume they tried to target the price-performance market as opposed to the price-performance-watt market. at that top-end they would lose. > Is the situation different now? yes. > With an ARM version of Windows, and > Microsoft's now proven ability to port Wondows to new architectures, quite > possibly. that's going (eventually) to eat into the top-end price-performance market as well, but not until x86 hardware-level emulation is common enough to get 70-80% of clock rate AT THE SAME TIME as reducing POWER by 70-80%. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
