Comment Re:For Gord's sake, not THG (Score 1) 103
History repeats itself. But if that's the case then let's follow this line of logic:
1) Intel will release a 128-bit N-core CPU that will be dirt cheap and universally accepted and praised for a decade, or more (re: 8080, 8086, 80186, 80286)
2) Intel will rely on this single, gargantuan leap forward to build it's product line for the next decade. (re: 80386, 80486, Pentium etc.)
3) Competitor will beat Intel at it's own game by releasing chips that are just slightly faster, and just slightly cheaper (re: AMD)
4) Competitor will release a 256-bit N*N-core CPU that will be competitively priced, but slightly underpowered, running a new instruction set they engineered after collaborating with the open source community that fixes many holes that were present in the previous 128-bit N-core from Intel, but goes further and enables programmers to write new tools that create new branches of software (re: AMD64)
5) Intel will beat Competitor at their game by beefing up L1, L2, L3, L4, [Ln...] caches since etching out banks of transistors is cheap, then sell the cache laden 256-bit N*N-core chips for just more than Competitor, pushing them out of the market (re: EMT64)
6) Step 2 (0:
Who needs THG baby? The writing's on the wall!
1) Intel will release a 128-bit N-core CPU that will be dirt cheap and universally accepted and praised for a decade, or more (re: 8080, 8086, 80186, 80286)
2) Intel will rely on this single, gargantuan leap forward to build it's product line for the next decade. (re: 80386, 80486, Pentium etc.)
3) Competitor will beat Intel at it's own game by releasing chips that are just slightly faster, and just slightly cheaper (re: AMD)
4) Competitor will release a 256-bit N*N-core CPU that will be competitively priced, but slightly underpowered, running a new instruction set they engineered after collaborating with the open source community that fixes many holes that were present in the previous 128-bit N-core from Intel, but goes further and enables programmers to write new tools that create new branches of software (re: AMD64)
5) Intel will beat Competitor at their game by beefing up L1, L2, L3, L4, [Ln...] caches since etching out banks of transistors is cheap, then sell the cache laden 256-bit N*N-core chips for just more than Competitor, pushing them out of the market (re: EMT64)
6) Step 2 (0:
Who needs THG baby? The writing's on the wall!
