Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge

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Chicken before the egg scenario nothing more...

To say Microsoft Windows runs old code that is why the CPU doesn't change is bogus!

Microsoft doesn't decide what AMD or Intel puts in their chips, it is the other way around. Case in point AMD's introduction x64 Processor, before MS had windows x64 flavors in fact AMD had to wait for Microsoft to come up with a proper product for their Chipset. Linux community helped out in the mean time with an x64bit version of linux.

You're putting the cart before the horse...Most of you miss the point and target in on the blaming of an OS manufacturer.

The point of the article was with the hardware and finding it hard for the manufactures to convince developers to work with a new chipset, Intel's Itanium...this failed like the alpha like the HP\Compaq\DEC chip...which was like a hot potatoe and passed on to the Intel\HP brainchild Itanium, or Itanic and other slanderious nick names.

If Intel can't do it who will? Sun still has the sparc and IBM still has the Power

So there are lots of options on the market, but the developers are the hurdle, people don't like change and adoption especially a new language. If your a developer you know every 6 months there's a new flavor of something, java, asp, jsp...c, c++,C#...Delphi,.net, Delphi It's all out there in the market.

Here's my final opinion:

AMD brought the x64bit chipset to the world through the gamers and tuners of this world and paved the path for other successful hardware manufactures, dragging Intel with it. Now IBM with the cell architecture is quietly following this path with the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. The gaming developers are adopting these new systems and adapting code and languages to this architecture. Following a hardware vender IBM could be the next jump in to cell architecuture, or AMD as they are taking a page from their agenda and coming out with the GPU\CPU stacked processor. The Next year you will see at least one Video manufacture come out with a API set or application that will use a GPU as a general processor and we'll move to a massive parallel environment (MPE) or at least more towards the general processor architecture.

Posted by: rschror   Posted on: 04/03/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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