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Intel Dumps Iitanium's x86 Hardware Compatibility
Spinlock_1977 writes "C|Net is running a story that Intel is going back to software x86 emulation on Itanium in order to reclaim chip real estate. (room for another 9MB of cache?)
One notable quote about x86 emulation: 'Basically, no one ever used hardware-based IA-32 execution, so better to use the silicon for something else,' said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. 'Of course, basically no one uses software-based emulation either, but at least that doesn't cost chip real estate.'"
Intel's chips will use that extra sillicon for a nice pair of fake breasts. That's sure to up their earnings next quarter. Take that AMD.
Sheesh, the Itanic wasn't exactly a success story. How does it fit into their new roadmap with cooler chips that eat less power? That processor was a goddamn space heater.
"Of course, basically no one uses Itanium either..."
Why not extend that logic? No one really used the Itanium chip anyway so why not use the silicon to make Yohan's for Apple?
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Virtual machine based stuff (Java/JVM, .NET/CLR) (even popular on cell phones these days)
So that's why it takes two friggen minutes to turn on my cell phone!
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Why not just say....
Basically, no one ever used Itanium , so better to use the silicon in a more meaningful manner...
1. Stop making Itanium chips
2. Harvest saved silicon
3. ????
4. Profit!
Given ???? involves *cough* implants of some type....
Imagine Intel branded implants.
I'm talk about cyborg implants, what were you guys thinking about!!
Flamebait huh? There must have been a Java programmer with mod points.
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There's a sense of irony with Apple having, apparently, no problem getting PPC emulation to work on an Intel x86 ... and Intel having no joy running x86 emulation on IA64. If I didn't know better it would look to me like IA64 is a bag of crap.
Oh, hang on.
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Now I understand! That little coffee cup symbol that comes up on my phone is really telling me to go have a cup of coffee while I wait for the Java software to start. And all along I thought it was not functional at all but just an amusing little pun on the "Java" name... Silly me.
There's obviously a typo in this headline, which I've corrected:
Iintel Dumps Iitanium's x86 Hardware Compatibility.
C'mon Slashdot editors, get with it.
Maybe they just make it for the supercomputer folks... a niche market which is probably 10x larger and 100x more profitable than the propeller-beanie AMD fanboy crowd that trolls around here, scoffing at neon-illumiation-free chassis.
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I'm sure that both of the users of the Itanium are thrilled by this development. They should drop it and use the extra fab capacity to make 8-bit microcontrollers. There's still a market for those.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
You mean 'a Java programmer with a collection of instances of class ModPoint'. ;)
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Memory allocation while coding. :P
What day is it? Could you please tell me?
Basically no one uses Itanium, so we can save even more by getting rid of the Itanium instruction set. That leaves us with the cache, and we can bolt that onto one of our AMD-clone 64-bit processors and maybe get some bucks.
Any self respecting Java programmer knows better than to have a collection of class ModPoint. You need an interface for ModPoint that is implemented by AbstractModPoint from which ModPointImpl is derived. Let's not even get into ModPointFactory. What really kills me is the ModPointIterator...