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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.'"
Why waste real estate on that old, non-proprietary, open, well known and licensed x86 stuff when we can pull everyone down the rosy path towards the real goal of this HP-Intel PA-RISC-64-bit wonder? SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE BEGGARS STEALING OUR IDEAS ANYMORE.
Mr Grove? Mr Grove? Your pacemaker's not working. We think it's the chip..... we couldn't find a way to port the code. Hello Mr Ruiz? Can you give Mr Grove a hand here? We think he's dying.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
That means x86 is a bag of crap. I bet you can emulate PPC nicely on IA64 too.
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How fucked up that you got modded troll. If anything, "Flamebait" would have been appropriate. However, I would choose Funny, or Insightful. Itanic crashed and sank, and they should just give up on it now if they can't get performance up dramatically somehow.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Damn, where's the (-1, Clueless) mod when you need it?
Face it Intel... you just can't make processors as good as AMD does. Why don't you just go back to making that other stuff you make so we- oh... right.