Replies to post #98565 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[mas]

I don't think they will be using those engineers on any x86 solution like that article suggests as Nvidia failed to get access to any x86 patents during the settlement. Project Denver, their proposed desktop/server/hpc ARM chip is what they will be put to use on ...

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So we’ve been working on it for years. We’ve been in collaboration with ARM for a shorter time because it uses their future generation chip architecture. We’ve had hundreds of people working on it for a very long time. It’s been rumored to be everything, like an Intel-compatible product. We thought the best thing is to tell people what it was.

[mmoy]

> x86 to ARM translation, in software or hardware-assisted, is
> probably doomed as a primary means of software support, but it
> does make Windows 8 on ARM more appealing IMO.

Intel is adding instruction sets and even instruction formats at a
torrid pace. I still have to read the AVX programming reference. It's 717 pages long. I've run translated software on Alpha. It was a pain to do the translation. Apple did a good job on Power to Intel but Intel was the faster chip and they could at least map AltiVec to SSE2.