> I bet both Intel and AMD aren't exactly in love with x86 at the moment This has been the case for, eh, decades now? To me it's almost a joke how many times I

> I bet both Intel and AMD aren't exactly in love with x86 at the moment This has been the case for, eh, decades now? To me it's almost a joke how many times Intel has tried to replace ia32 with a modernized replacement and miserably failed to make any headway. I suppose Intel doesn't want to try competing with the legion of architecturally similar RISC cores and would rather "go big" with ideas like Itanium/i860/i960/iAPX. It's funny to imagine, but maybe one day they'd release a RISC-V implementing processor. Can't imagine them licensing the rights to ARM, and going with Power or MIPS also seems out of character.