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Crazy that they need to write such things because incompetent investors think that ISA has huge implications
by high_na_euv 2y ago
Crazy that they need to write such things because incompetent investors think that ISA has huge implications
- leonheld 2y agoThe shocker is: a lot of engineers think that the ISA has huge implications.
- chasil 2y agoThere was an interview with one of the SPARC creators who said that a huge benefit of control of the instruction set was the ability to take the platform in directions that (Intel) resellers could not. He was otherwise largely agnostic on the benefits of SPARC.
- paulmd 2y agoISA shouldn’t be more than a 10% or 20% performance impact or so, per jim Keller
- SkyMarshal 2y agoThat's not trivial...
- nextaccountic 2y agoWhat this means is that a better ISA might permanently be one generation ahead in terms of performance
- glitchc 2y agoISAs do have huge implications. A poorly designed ISA can balloon the instruction count, which has a direct impact on program size and the call stack.
- high_na_euv 2y agoInvestors dont care about those nerdy details The talk is about perf and energy usage, where diff between x86 and arm is not even close to what they believe
- DanielHB 2y agoIt has huge implications because it makes competing in that market much harder due to licensing issues. Intel and AMD have a duopoly on the x86 market which compromises a huge chunk of server and personal computing, but that is changing fast. If they go ARM (or risc-v or whatever) they will have more competition to contend with, including their existing cloud computing clients designing their own chips and fabbing them with other foundries.
- high_na_euv 2y agoPerf/Energy implications
- aidenn0 2y agoI was going to correct you on the duopoly, but apparently the Cyrix/Centaur/Via agreement expired some time ago.