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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by viraptor on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:19AM (#25313661)
> What about sustainability? Of course it's cheap to build ever more powerful systems and to ruin the planet with more energy consumption and more waste.

Are you sure that running two production lines and supporting both of them long term is more sustainable than killing one of them?

> By law of physics they could be built using less resources during production and during their lifetime.

If you want to go that way, why not even more efficient arm cortex?

Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by pantalaimon on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:00AM (#25314208)
there is more than one manufacturer to produce CPUs, so there are already more than two production lines
Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by viraptor on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:26AM (#25314371)
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Regardless of the number of existing manufacturers, different architecture means more designers, validation, production pipeline and other inefficiencies. And that's best case of using the same wafers as your other products and not building a separate literal production line.