Well what I find interesting here is if they are able to manufacture chips with 7nm litography. Aren't intel and samsung who I belive to be the leaders in the f

Well what I find interesting here is if they are able to manufacture chips with 7nm litography. Aren't intel and samsung who I belive to be the leaders in the field, still at 14 nm? In case WD manages to beat them to the market with this technology at least there will be a lot of hype around this. As far as binary compability is concerned this is more or less a thing of the past. The way I see it js and other interpreted languages provide for the most vibrant ecosystem at the moment. Where we have package management running not over only kernels but also distributions. Before this developers have gotten really acustomed to compiling into platform independent bytecode. And even windows which in comparison with Linux has been ported to few platforms is by no means impossible to move over to a new instruction set. As have been demonstrated multiple times. Even C itself was developed to make few assumptions in regards to the metal. If you please, excuse me for reiterating facts well known to the average HN reader. Furthermore with developers more or less requiring to work with open source software as it makes debugging and making use of other developers experiences easier. The probability that you will be stuck with CPU specific binaries of any given program is slim. Now the problem is "only" to find programmers capable of programming 4096 CPU cores to operate well simultaneously, in a world where it's completely accepted and right, for a text editor to eat up hundreds of megabytes of ram displaying the source code for a hello world program. Also for this to truly make a dent the development has to span all the way from the metal via the kernel and to the actual application. Unfortunately I am afraid that the open license will mean very little, from a freedom point of view as they take this route out of the pragmatic reasons, briefly mentioned above, not to make an ideological stand. Nonetheless it's a step forward so I'll try to supress my cynicism.