An interesting article on the x86 architecture, and reasons for its continued innovation, has been posted on the site - x86 processors buck R&D investment trend.
Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor of EDN, begins:
Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor of EDN, begins:
You might expect, therefore, that the semiconductor industry would mirror the broader economy's malaise; this scenario has indeed occurred in many technology and product sectors. The x86 CPU business has bucked the general trend, however, as continued R&D investment and resultant new-IC output demonstrate.
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- Intel hopes to rapidly spread the Nehalem microarchitecture across all desktop-PC segments, whereas Advanced Micro Devices' recent moves are more modest.
- The mobile-computer market is particularly robust, and vendors' intense focus on it reflects that fact.
- Intel and its competitors disagree on whether a netbook is anything other than a notebook with neutered features.
- Buying a chip set from your CPU supplier may be not only unnecessary but also unwise.
- Servers, cell phones, and TVs round out the picture for Intel's x86 aspirations.
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