Re:I'm sure you'll hear about this one.. (Score 1)

Your Comment is wrong. There is a RISC - CISC conversion, since the core of the chip is RISC, but the instructions comming in is CISC. Also, 64 bits are extremely important. Even Intel and AMD think so. That is why they are spending TRILLIONS to develop the 64 bit architecture, which has been present in my R10K Indigo2 since 1994. The biggest problem with X86 (IMHO) is the fact that it only has 4 general purpose registers for programmers to play with. This MIPS has 128. Also, even if most instructions do take exacly one clock cycle to execute (which is doubtful) until recently, only ONE instuction did get executed at a time. Intel's SuperScaler Instructions fixed this, but once again my 1994 Indigo2 does this already. Hell, even ones made prior to my machine does this. Another big advantage for the MIPS is the fact that it has an 8 Megabyte _ON-DIE_ cache. This is an absolutely insane amount, and something like 2-3 times what a Xeon has. From my point of view, the biggest advantage that X86 hardware has is cost.