Eric Smith wrote:
[snip]
easily be disabled (if you don't need to
interoperate with other
Palladium systems), but the agenda is to build it into the processor,
and Intel and AMD both seem willing to do it. Once that happens,
you won't even be able to buy a microprocessor without Palladium
and still get competitive performance. Non-Palladium processors
will exist for embedded applications, but they'll be older, slower
technology, just as processors targeting embedded applications
By that time we might have a DEC 10 FPGA (or similar)
e.
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