Re: Another botched call by Intel
Intel have always been a bit embarrassed by the x86 ISA. Its shut basically.
They have wierd cycle:
-x86 makes lots of money.
- Intel execs get excited by the next big thing.i960 (object orientated CPU is I remember the spin), Itatmium (not sure what it was meant to be - Intels version of Alpha?), Pentium 4 (surface of the sun).
- Idea blows up in face, execs sacked, some faceless browne noser takes over and syarts banging up about x86 everywhere.
Intel are one of the best silicon fabricators going. No argument.
Intel are one of the worse CPU desgigners. Ever. They fuck up time + time again. Intel have had two major bits of luck that bailed them out big time: IBM choosing x86 for the PC; Israel designed producing a low power RISC which ran x86 (CoreDuo). At the time of the Core Duo, Intel had everyone in the company pushing Pentium 4. They knew it was an overhot piece of shit bu they they did note care.
However, Intels biggest luck as been the margins on x86, well Xeons these days. This allows them to outspend its competitors.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
