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

krw wrote:

>miles.bader@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>> 
>> I suppose if AMD hadn't been around, there would have been a greater
>> chance of Intel getting their butts whipped by some other architecture,
>> instead of by AMD.
>
>What architecture?  You grossly underestimate the x86 inertia.

Yeah, I recall how years ago some nutcases saying things like the
Pentium 3 (yes, the 3) was "already obsolete" upon release, because it
did not sup****t IA64, which was set to blow X86 out of the market when
it was released.  

Of course, more sensible minds thought "Huh?  It'll be more expensive,
yet run all the software slower, since all the software is X86, so why
would I want it?"