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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by metagame on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:48PM (#28939993)
They've tried a lot of "reimagining." It never works. No one wants Intel on mobile, despite Intel's mobile chips being absolutely great when they were actually releasing them, and no one wants a genuinely high-performance chip if it means they have to make alterations to how their software is written.

I have a lot of criticisms of Intel, but held back from reimagining isn't quite a great one.

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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by imwillofficial on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:16AM (#28940185)
Their low power stuff was garbage. And itanium went unsupported and was half baked.

Intel knew where their money makers were, x86 servers. Their attention and investment showed a lack of foresight, combined with their famous bloated engineering teams, is a story as old as time itself.

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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by genmud on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:12AM (#28940153)
When has intel reimagined products that have low power and low price? Intel has been notorious for having power hungry and overpriced stuff.
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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by wmf on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:57AM (#28940446)
Didn't Pouslbo and friends have negative prices ("contra-revenue") yet still nobody wanted them?
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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by nuerow on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:19AM (#28940608)
For those who, like me, never heard of Poulsbo, it's a chipset for Intel's first generation of Atom processors.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/chipsets/poulsbo

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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by baybal2 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:40AM (#28940749)
Poulsbo was disastrously bad, quirky, and impractical.

It took all x86 platform warts, and replaced it with even harder to get right "Poulsbo warts" like SFI, and etc.

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Re:Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-H... by FreezingKeeper on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:26AM (#28941426)
And to think they had it in their hands in 1997 with StrongARM
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