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Did not know that, and indeed the pentium m / core / core 2 series microarches have done incredibly well. I've become something of CPU collector in recent year
by kar1181 6y ago
Did not know that, and indeed the pentium m / core / core 2 series microarches have done incredibly well.
I've become something of CPU collector in recent years, and I have a nice line of p6 cpus from thePentium Pro -> Pentium 2 -> Pentium 3 -> Pentium M -> Core 2 that conveniently sidesteps those awful Netburst p4 CPUs.
It feels like this (p6+) microarch has finally run out of road and needs a rethink. What 'saved' intel was a change in philosophy rather than chasing MHz they chased power savings. And with Apple's new chips that history is repeating itself (and appears to be with a similar outcome).
It's an exciting time for hardware again because Intel and AMD are going to have to react to this and I think there's still legs to x86, it's survived everything thats been thrown at it so far...
- m12k 6y agoIt's fascinating to see history repeated - the architecture and design with the most power efficiency generally also turns out to be the one that can be pushed furthest for performance when you want to go that route.
- nuker 6y ago> I've become something of CPU collector in recent years, and I have a nice line of p6 cpus from thePentium Pro I bought i486DX for $20 month ago, as a memo of my first CPU.
- intricatedetail 6y agoI got a Pentium 100 last month with a motherboard and a psu. I plan to run W95. It's going to be fun!
- pantulis 6y ago"I think there's still legs to x86, it's survived everything thats been thrown at it so far..." Also, some one, some day, had to disrupt it. Maybe this is it, maybe not.
- Skunkleton 6y agoThat's an interesting observation. It holds true in other areas as well. For example, we have lots of high horsepower cars as the result of R&D effort into high efficiency engines.