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> Had it not been the case, and everyone would be using Itanium no matter what. That's quite a strong statement.
by klelatti 4y ago
> Had it not been the case, and everyone would be using Itanium no matter what.
That's quite a strong statement.
- pjmlp 4y agoIt is the hard reality, no AMD64, Itanium would have been the only 64 bit CPU successor for x86 coming out from Intel. Take it or leave it, and with Wintel going Itanium, that would be it.
- klelatti 4y agoToday not 'everyone' is using x86 - by a long margin - so it's a bit of a stretch to say that in a hypothetical alternative history an architecture that failed in the market would be utterly dominant.
- pjmlp 4y ago85% of desktop users and about 90% cloud users certainly are. Mobile phones and tablets are mostly consumer devices, Apple's ARM laptops are only relevant for about 10% of the desktop market. Outside embedded devices and electronic appliances, every other CPU is a rounding error in what concerns the general public.
- temac 4y agoIf you exclude everything that does not go into your direction and make the hypothesis that a poor architecture would have risen and then would not have been replaced, you conclude that "everybody" would use it?
- pjmlp 4y agoWithout AMD64, Windows and UNIX would, that is what matters in this context.
- klelatti 4y agoSo not everyone, even in your chosen subset of the market.
- pjmlp 4y agoIt is a matter of market share.