They floated a "white paper" a few months back about removing legacy instructions. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envision

They floated a "white paper" a few months back about removing legacy instructions. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... Taking a little time with these sorts of things isn't bad. This will essentially be a new epic where AMD and Intel may end up being incompatible, at least for a while, there are tooling changes to make, OS support, all sorts of things. If they're serious about dropping 16bit and 32bit from the architecture, doing it during a change like this might make some sense. Do it wrong and they could Osborn themselves, but an Apple like migration strategy would be nice and I'd appreciate it.