Comment Re:R & D (Score 1) 423
I don't see how else Intel could afford to keep developing new architectures.
Maybe Intel can, but sadly they aren't. AMD is responsible for the vast majority of x86 innovation over the last 4 years: high IPC cores, larger L1 caches, on-die memory controllers, high performance serial chip-to-chip interconnect, 64 bit extensions with more general purpose registers, no-exec page protection, etc.
Thank AMD for fixing x86.
Maybe Intel can, but sadly they aren't. AMD is responsible for the vast majority of x86 innovation over the last 4 years: high IPC cores, larger L1 caches, on-die memory controllers, high performance serial chip-to-chip interconnect, 64 bit extensions with more general purpose registers, no-exec page protection, etc.
Thank AMD for fixing x86.
