Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:59PM
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Nope. If that were actually true, Alpha, PA-RISC, UltraSPARC, or even Itanium would've killed x86 earlier.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by baybal2 on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:06PM
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All of above were beating X86 on transistor count/performance for their time. Beating X86 on that was their very point.
Their commercial demise had nothing to do with their hardware.
40 years of architectural advantage is X86 electing to forego results of 40 years of advances, and improvements that every other sane ISA had, and instead trying to add them by increasingly complex "workarounds."
Giant transistors counts go to allow X86 cores to not to break ISA compatibility with a 40 years old chip, while trying make new ISA features to live along with it.