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Blauboad, Re: Somebody here mentioned that they thought Alchemy might be eliminated.

People at Microprocessor Forum were wondering the same thing. So AMD already has Alchemy, right? But now they go and buy Geode - a lesser product with x86 compatibility - and now Webber is preaching that the world run x86. I think it speaks of an uncertain corporate strategy, if you ask me. AMD thinks they are the first one to advocate a single instruction set, and it was more than insulting to ARM and MIPS that AMD should proclaim AMD64 as the superior one. Both ARM and MIPS cracked a joke a Webber's expense when they took the podium for the high performance embedded portion of the conference. I didn't stay for the Q&A session, but I have to wonder if Webber was grilled as he should have been.

Meanwhile, Sun's keynote had a similar theme, but their solution was to solve the problem using software (i.e. Java). That seems to me a better solution than using x86 (or in AMD's case, their self-serving AMD64 advocacy), when it clearly doesn't come close to meeting the low power and high embedded performance of ARM/MIPS.