Even this is not enough, drop all support for 32-bit x86 and make the new minimum target amd64.

They did, you just werenâ(TM)t paying attention⦠https://youtu.be/mRfSM-lv55I?s...

You probably know that RISC-V exists, and remember that the Power ISA is also open source and royalty free... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You mean RISC-V or Power ISA v3.1, right? At this point, I'd steer clear of ARM entirely. ARM Holdings went after Broadcom over its architectural license with a vengeance, and that's not the kind of litigation headache anyone wants to deal with long-term. Apple, on the other hand, had a unique advantage thanks to its deep history with ARM—Apple was an original investor when ARM spun out in the early '90s for the Newton project. That early stake translated into a special architectural license for Apple's A-series and M-series chips, something almost no one else can replicate.

Apple's also in a league of its own when it comes to ISA migrations—just look at the transitions from 6502 to 68k, then PowerPC 32/64-bit, then Intel 32/64-bit, then ARM 32/64-bit. Very few companies have the engineering and software resources to pull off that many platform shifts without losing their user base.

For everyone else, RISC-V and Power ISA v3.1 are better long-term bets because they’re not as encumbered by ARM’s licensing minefield. And since AMD64 ISA and Transmeta VLIW / CMS patents are now well over 20 years old, there could be hybrid approaches as well, mixing RISC-V, Power, and x86-64 in new and interesting ways.

Worst-case scenario, if everything goes sideways geopolitically, we’ll all just be scavenging Xeons from decommissioned servers anyway—so maybe all of this debate is moot. But if there's a real future in high-performance computing, Intel (and everyone else) should look beyond ARM’s locked-down ecosystem.

I'd like to see the return of the Intel OverDrive Processor Interposers so that we can breathe new life into old platforms.

This is a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.

Seriously not even a single joke about di-lithium crystals, what is this world coming to?

We don't need Intel, the x86-64 ISA is owned by AMD, this is why we call it amd64, and at this point this ISA's patients have expired... yes the Athlon 64 is 21 years old now, so amd64 is effectively an open standard at this point. PowerPC and RISC-V are also open standards, so I'm certain that fabless customers will be able to figure out how to make a core for whatever it is that they want to do at this point.

Zoom out on the graph's temperature axis and you'll see that this was just a blip

Just zoom out on the graph's temperature axis and you'll see that this was just a blip.

Ad hominem attack, science pedophile.

These people deserve the gas chanber. Did hotez take the vaccine?

Windows will continually add unix features until it's the same thing.

Well there's a wsudo and gsudo, both fire Windoze, on sourceforge, been there for years.

So simply enter 800 as your score?

Using Python to print 2/3 in Microsoft Excel, clearly the mark of the beast.