Comments on: AMD and Intel Won't Let x86 Die Without a Fight

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AMD Fusion Processors Coming to Future Apple Computers: Apple « — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:13:05 +0000

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By: Jazzy Fizzle

Jazzy Fizzle — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:13:32 +0000

Popularity and market cap does not constitute that a said product is superior, it could be down to marketing, or in Intel and AMDs case, monopolising the market.

Linking do a Intel produced PDF, designed to sucker you in is not justifiable proof that Intel is doing wonders in the energy/performance arena. They are comparing their own crap with even more newly produced crap.

I encourage uses of other platforms in order to produce a competitive market from which everyone would benefit, more performance for less enegery use and hear disapation.

Part of this problem falls to software developers. Microsoft is the big one, the other is Apple. The two largest developers of operating systems, only make desktop operating systems that only support the x86 architecture.

I see the likes of Intel and AMD failing if they do not change the ratio of performance/watt quickly, as there is plenty of competition coming within the next 24 to 30 months.

This applies to Microsoft and Apple too, support of other architectures is essential, if not the alternative OS with soon be eating into the vast chunks of market cap they currently have.

I will happily pay a premium for a processor that has improved power/watt performance with intelligent power management, not just slowing down the clock, I am talking switching off cores completly, as we sit in a multi core enviroment today.

By: John

John — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:43:25 +0000

http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idfspr_2010/pdfs/BeijingIDF2010_Perlmutter_English.pdf What an incredibly ignorant post. Take a look at page 18 to see the so called death of x86. Already taken over Macs, servers, supercomputers, phones, tablets, TVs are next, and that’s about everybody.

By: Jazzy Fizzle

Jazzy Fizzle — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:10:40 +0000

Just kill the x86 and be done with it. Its a rediculously old platform now, with poor instruction sets. This is Intels and AMDs last chance to squeeze out the last bit of change out of out pockets before they stump up the cash to develop new platforms.

These power sucking commodity desktop and server CPUs contribute vasts amounts of CO2, something which can be alleviated by putting 20 year old technology to bed, but they wont in order to keep the shareholders happy. Nice one capitalism, you just kicked the comsumer and the enviroment in the nuts, once again.