Re: AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?

On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:17:48 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Robert
Myers <rbmyersusa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Apr 25, 10:21 pm, "nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:07:36 -0400, Yousuf Khan <bbb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Wish them luck - without AMD the whole CPU world would be
>> boring and damn expensive.
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>Amdroid fantasy.  The PC as a platform is pushed on the low end by
>game boxes and on the high end by IBM and Sun.
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>What could be more boring than the x86 domination we have now?
>Without AMD, there would be no such monoculture.

Competition.
Intel would still be with Pentium 2 if not for AMD

Does it have to be crossposted to the whole known universe?

>As it is, Via is still in the x86 business and will continue in the
>x86 business, even if AMD fails.

I agree other architectures have a possibility here.
But MS, not releasing source of their OS, and only with an x86
binary version, has kept x86 going.

Linux and other Unices allow almost any architecture to succeed.
You can run Linux on PS3 and Cell for example.
And that is not even 'low end'.