20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
6:39 a.m.
Zitat von David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>:
This reminds me of the depressing trend of a
mostly-converged CPU
monoculture. Just about everything is x86/amd64 with the exception of
tablets and phones which often use ARM. What became of MIPS?
Don't write off MIPS that fast. A lot of new embedded Designs are MIPS based,
a lot of research (china!) goes into the MIPS architecture.
HP ditched PA-RISC and Alpha to
fart around with Itanium and otherwise sells Intel.
Seems that Itanium is not there to stay either. So "just" an Intel shop ...
Is there any meaningful research going on to produce
an alternative to
the Intel/AMD monoculture? ARM servers sound nice, but so far it's
vaporware.
ARM still has to deliver the performance there. Nice for power saving
tablets, but for anything else ...
Cheers