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Well they have to try something and actually invest in it. Every year, it looks more and more like x86 is a sinking ship. Intel and AMD can dominate the x86 ma
by brokencode 2y ago
Well they have to try something and actually invest in it. Every year, it looks more and more like x86 is a sinking ship.
Intel and AMD can dominate the x86 market all they want. But x86 has been steadily losing ground every year to cheaper and more power efficient ARM processors. It’s still a big market now, but I don’t think it’s going to be a great business in a decade or two.
ARM was just an example. If Intel spent a decade strengthening their Larrabee GPGPU platform and building AI and crypto ecosystems on it, they may have been well positioned to benefit immensely like Nvidia has over the last 5 years.
- astrange 2y agoCheap and power efficient is mostly not about the ISA. ARMv8 is designed for efficient fast CPUs and it's good at it, but you could do it with x86 if you tried. Intel doesn't try because they want to make expensive high-power server chips. Although their latest plan is to turn it into ARMv8 anyway: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/advanced-performance-extensions-apx.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... The main problem with x86 is that it has poor security, not poor performance.