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Intel Moves Up 32nm Production, Cuts 45nm
Vigile writes "Intel recently announced that it was moving up the production of 32nm processors in place of many 45nm CPUs that have been on the company's roadmap for some time. Though spun as good news (and sure to be tough on AMD), the fact is that the current economy is forcing Intel's hand as they are unwilling to invest much more in 45nm technologies that will surely be outdated by the time the market cycles back up and consumers and businesses start buying PCs again. By focusing on 32nm products, like Westmere, the first CPU with integrated graphics, Intel is basically putting a $7 billion bet on a turnaround in the economy for 2010."
Singularity, to me, is one of those projects the previous article about Microsoft spending money on frivolous research projects was all about. All apps sharing the same address space? Are they insane? I know Netware gets away with it quite a bit (NLMs use kernel space 95% of the time), but they don't have the apparent number of exploits/reason to exploit as Microsoft's code does. I've always wondered about an OS that used a cross-CPU executable format (at the OS level, sorry Java and .NET), but I wonder how well inferno OS does this? Google will surely tell...