What is the future of x86?
>Microsoft wants to push the "always connected pc" concept with arm processors
>Apple is planning to replace their computer product line with their own chips (which consumers will easily adapt to because apple has done 2 processor architecture already)
>Whole lotta bullshit going on at Intel Corp, Just fuck my shit up resigns.
What is the future of x86?
Leo Thompson
Lucas Nelson
Its about to die and and go to the hell that it deserves
Easton Price
No one care you autismal shit
Isaiah Morgan
The same old, same old
Two companies will continue to sell x86 chips for decades to come. The third x86 company will succumb to market forces and competition
>The two that survive are AMD and VIA ...
Jordan Flores
>no one care
Apparently OP does, turbosperg
Jaxson Adams
>VIA
VIA's license expired a few years ago.
Mason Gomez
And they're still making x86(_64) processors
Adrian Sanders
>the two that survive don't own x86
Lel
James Cook
sneaky chinese. How come we don't see them on retail market? I'd buy VIA CPU
Aiden Torres
As stated, it will be alive and kicking for at least for the next couple of decades.
There is a whole fuckton of software that exists for x86. Even if devs started writing exclusively for ARM today, you'd still need x86 for "legacy" software.
Not to mention the fact that ARM is simply not as fast as x86 without ridiculous clocks, (hard to achieve of not impossible) or absolute fuckton of cores (which might not scale well).
Jonathan Ward
They license Intel patents for 10 years. Most of those patents are now expired.
Wyatt Lopez
This. Intel is fucked.
Also, RIP LG
>theregister.co.uk
>newsroom.intel.com
Jeremiah Smith
They're more on the low power side of things. I think VIA's best processor is Atom tier. You can buy boards with VIA processors, they don't sell any socketed ones though. You just search for VIA motherboards and they come with BGA mounted VIA processors. They're like bigger SBCs (technically they are SBCs). Smaller than mITX but bigger than rPis
Christopher Carter
x86 has long been viewed as a dying architecture. RISC will take its rightful place at the top of the processor pile.
Justin Moore
Even x86 has been RISC for decades, the CISC x86 instructions pass through a CISC to RISC converter
Colton Reyes
Lol how did we all miss it
Dominic Gomez
This is really one of the advantages to CISC instruction sets - it provides a fairly reasonable abstraction layer over some much more primitive compute activities which can also inform low-level CPU hardware of program intent - things like branch prediction and caching can be predicated by CISC-level instructions before they are sent off and decoded into a machine-executable stream of instructions. It is even feasible to have "configurable" on-the-fly CISC CPUs where you can use program code to supply hints to branch predictors - This is one of the really cool things on AMD's Ryzen is that they use neural networks to train for branch prediction logic. The next step would have it look at the incoming instruction stream and start to predict a program's complex data access patterns using deep learning-style approaches. You could really expand this approach pretty far and look at things like soft error correction, speculative main memory prefetch into L3, etc.
Blake Diaz
I think its arm because most devices on the world use their processors
Juan Hill
This. Theyre designed for embedded systems. ATMs, POS machines, etc.
Logan Garcia
>arm and x86
Will be slowly but surely replaced with RISC-V.
Jayden Sanders
>Even x86 has been RISC for decades
This isn't necessarily true.
What's true is nothing is real x86 anymore, but the internal architectures Intel and AMD are using could be even more CISC, there is nothing to say they're RISC.